Direct Quotes - Page 6

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you will follow.

Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.

The best system I've ever seen for intellectual distribution is the direct selling business-also known as one-to-one marketing, network marketing, referral marketing or relationship marketing.

It was the straying that found the path direct.

Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. You are the writer of your life story. You are the director of your life movie. You decide what your life will be – by what you give out.

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacred. Then it functions not as a prison but as a lens.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.