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• Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Perfect, Wish, Novelists

  Interview with Paul Auster, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• Truthfully, most directors don't direct actors. Every actor is different, so when you're asked, "How do you approach an actor?," it depends on the actor. With some, you do nothing. With some, you're very specific.

  John Landis

  Directors, Different, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I am very direct and I tend to treat everyone exactly the same, which sometimes gets me in trouble because some movie stars feel like they should be treated differently. But, when you're dealing with good actors, they really appreciate it.

  John Landis

  Stars, Appreciate, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't necessarily want to direct because it's too much work and I don't have the attention span to stay with it that long. But I think getting everyone together on something that appeals to me and developing the material is something that I like to do.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Thinking, Long, Together

  "Made of Honour - Patrick Dempsey interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and other financial products. The result is that consumers can't make direct product comparisons, markets aren't competitive, and costs are higher. If the playing field is leveled and the broken market fixed, a lot more money will stay in the pockets of millions of hard-working families. That's real stimulus - money to families, without increasing our national debt.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Real, Hard Work, Broken

  "Exclusive Interview: Elizabeth Warren Says Big Banks Must Stop Blocking Reform". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.

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• A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.

  Ben Affleck

  Past, Bugs, Stage

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• Thank god now for social media and just e-commerce. Now designers have a direct pipeline to their customer and access to her like they never had before, like they never could before. Clothes can happen now that never would have had a chance in the traditional chain of command of the way things worked.

  Byron Lars

  Media, Clothes, Thank God

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• I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Challenges, Would Be, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ambition, Discovery, Television

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks on Post-‘Cosmos’". Front Row Features Interview, frontrowfeatures.com. June 8, 2014.

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• I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.

  Susan Stroman

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I used to stand in front of the mirror and listen to Hezekiah Walker all day. I thought I was a member of his choir and direct people that weren't there.

  Mike Willis

  Mirrors, People, Choir

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• I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn't have a direct goal, I just knew I wanted to be in this industry telling stories and doing this for a job. I thought my path was going to be as a writer, but I'm pretty happy doing it as an actor.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Jobs, Goal, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You do something like use the wrong music, the tone's off, and everything feels off". And I was like, "I'm not going down with this one. I wrote it, but I don't like that play." Then I thought, "Well, no one's producing my stuff, letting me star in it, and direct it at these theaters, so I'll just do them in comedy clubs."

  Jake M. Johnson

  Stars, Talking, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

  Sofia Coppola

  Inspirational, Motivational, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very direct. I don't have tantrums. I don't yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.

  Tom Ford

  Tantrums, Awful, Staff

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, Swimming, Knowing

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• Meditation isn't just something we do to make ourselves more peaceful and to take some of the stress out of our lives. We do it because it's the only direct experience we can have of knowing God. Because God is that which is indivisible. Everything else in the universe, in the physical world, is divisible. Up and down, good and bad, right and wrong, male and female, and so on. But that which is indivisible in our physical experience is called silence. And when you get into silence, you're coming to know the indivisibleness of your life - and that's conscious contact.

  Wayne Dyer

  Stress, Knowing, Silence

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• I don't go through a torturous intellectual process to decide what to direct. I know what I want to direct the second I read something or hear a story. I just know when it grabs me in a certain way I want to direct it. And then I spend the next four to six months trying to talk myself out of it, because directing is really hard! But it's true, I know essentially when and what I want to do next... it's an undeniable feeling I get and it's not the same feeling I get when I wind up producing something.

  Steven Spielberg

  Wind, Feelings, Intellectual

  "War Horse - Steven Spielberg interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

  Brad Pitt

  Art, Pieces, Architecture

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• Directing is a big responsibility to take on. I think I'm only good at doing things I know very well. I don't direct movies because I get offered the new vampire movie or science fiction movie. I don't get offered those, anyway, but if I did, I would just tell 'em, "Look, I'm the wrong guy." I only do things about people and situations, and I do the ones that I think I'm the best guy for the job on, which is usually something I generate myself.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Jobs, Responsibility, Thinking

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• I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Art, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm an actor who loves to direct film, if I find something that I'm compelled to do and want to spend three or four years doing. I really love the process, though. I might have to just say, "Yeah, I want to direct that," because I want to direct something, but that's just not the way my being is. It's got to be a necessity for me, otherwise I'll just keep acting.

  Ed Harris

  Years, Acting, Three

  "Ed Harris Talks PHANTOM, Working in an Actual Submarine, Plus PAIN & GAIN, SNOWPIERCER and 4 ½ MINUTES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 2, 2013.

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• I feel that I have a certain amount of experience and I'm still learning so much. But a director's job is so vast; they have so much to do with the preparation. You have to be great with all kinds of personalities and you have to be very patient, there's a lot of skills I'm not sure if I have. So I don't know if I'm ready to direct, but who knows what the future has.

  Jason Statham

  Jobs, Skills, Personality

  Source: collider.com

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• Everyone that I meet always wants me to direct, but whenever I think of directing, I think of aligning shots. I'd definitely have to write and direct something. But I don't know if I could.

  Chris Colfer

  Writing, Thinking, Want

  "Chris Colfer Talks STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, Chances of Adapting His Book THE LAND OF STORIES Into a Movie, and GLEE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 5, 2013.

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• Business, endorsements and things of that nature, I got into it kinda naturally. Those ventures materialised as a direct result of things that I was actually doing; all the partnerships have been organic and not necessarily etched out plans for monetary gain.

  Nas

  Venture, Gains, Partnership

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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