Quotes with directing

  • There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

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  • B. F. Skinner The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Ben Affleck But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • I Ching Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Benjamin Millepied Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • Campbell Scott Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Ang Lee Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Ben Stiller Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Adam Smith Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bubba Smith Hugh Wilson made it so real and he took us and it was almost when he was directing it, the way he would do it was funnier than the way we did it. And I just developed a regard for him that was unbelievable.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bryan Singer I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Bruce McCulloch I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Barry Levinson I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Albert Camus In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Ang Lee Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Beth Henley Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • John Ruskin Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Campbell Scott There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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