#direct

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity. ↗

— Asia Argento

#most #much #nothing #pity #required

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction. ↗

— David Axelrod

#bus #direction #get #going #good

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#company #contracts #did #directly #i

Laurence," Granby said at his shoulder, "in the hurry, the ammunition was all laid in its usual place on the left, though we are not carrying the bombs to balance it out; we ought to restow." "Can you have it done before we engage? Oh, good Lord," Laurence said, realizing. "I do not even know the position of the convoy; do you?" Granby shook his head, embarrassed, and Laurence swallowed his pride and shouted, "Berkley, where are we going?" A general explosion of mirth ran among the men on Maximus's back. Berkley called back, "Straight to Hell, ha ha!" More laughter, nearly drowning out the coordinates that he bellowed over. ↗

— Naomi Novik

#men

All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting. The point is only who chooses to fill that nothing. It's a tough battle. The toughest. It's simple enough to fight any enemy, so long as he's there to be fought. But when he isn't. . . ↗

— Ayn Rand

#collectives #committees #incompetency #nothingness #men

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous. ↗

— Stephen King

#directing #musicals #plays #teens #music

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later?" Stanley Kubrick ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#films #music

Why did the mushroom go to the party? Because he's a fungi! ↗

— One Direction

#liam-payne #louis-tomlinson #niall-horan #one-direction #zayn-malik

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#directional #hard-work #excellence

If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#direction #knowledge #self-assurance #self-knowledge