#direct

There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#anyone #big #completely #different #direction

With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#america #american #american dream #bipartisan #chance

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus. ↗

— Elizabeth Pena

#bonus #captures #director #european #every

Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#actor #becomes #better #better person #directing

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. ↗

— Sean Penn

#actor #any #director #excitement #i

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#direct experience #experience #independent #intellectual #prior

I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#curious #directors #first #foremost #i

It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect . . . You know, I'm in. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#am #another #around #been #certain

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#give #input #scared #their #very

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#chair #choreography #directed #doing #father