#dire

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#bad #cruelty #direction #facing #fail

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#around #bear #brought #continual #difficulties

I have worked with some very great directors. ↗

— Ray Walston

#great #i #some #very #worked

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had. ↗

— Andrew Sarris

#different #directors #gradually #had #how

Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly). ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#back #dire #drives #factory #goes

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#begin #care #directing #go #mind

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#directly #discovery #effectively #error #false

The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#being #bit #calmed #director #down

I find directing more satisfying. ↗

— Michael Shanks

#find #i #more #satisfying

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#directing #films #i #making #started