#dire

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#hate #interest #love #neither #nor

I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them. ↗

— Jason Mewes

#call #director #doing #got #hear

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth. ↗

— Jason Mewes

#directors #even #i #like #lot

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#control #director #egos #everything #give

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#church #determine #director #doctrine #form

I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#chest #creature #director #get #happen

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues. ↗

— Gabriela Mistral

#direct #fortune #i #i am #indirect

It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#because #becomes #big #big deal #character

I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise. ↗

— Hayao Miyazaki

#after #am #debated #directives #discussing

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#causes #certain #chronic #direction #gravitate