All Quotes

As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.
‐‐ Colleen Atwood

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
‐‐ Alexander McQueen

As a developer, it's a great feeling knowing you have made an impact. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes with that: you have to really put the city's needs first. It's not all about making money.
‐‐ Stephen M. Ross

As a developing country, China needs a favorable neighbouring and international environment for its modernisation.
‐‐ Li Keqiang

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
‐‐ Van Morrison

As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
‐‐ Elaine Stritch

As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
‐‐ Naomi Shihab Nye

As a director he was not that interested in Vader.
‐‐ David Prowse

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.
‐‐ Stanley Tucci

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.
‐‐ Mary Stuart Masterson

As a director, I have the greatest job in the world, but if I don't push the boundaries, then what's the point of having it?
‐‐ Casey Neistat

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.
‐‐ Tommy Wiseau

As a director, I love being able to really be a contributing factor to the overall vision of a project.
‐‐ Kim Fields

As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a farmer checking in on all the plants being grown, pruning and adjusting. For me, it's a very exciting job.
‐‐ Henry Selick

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.
‐‐ Diane Paulus

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.
‐‐ Paul Feig

As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside.
‐‐ Tony Jaa

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.
‐‐ Griffin Dunne

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.
‐‐ Joseph Kosinski

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.
‐‐ Chadwick Boseman

As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.
‐‐ Tommy Wiseau

As a director, my job is, and always has been, divided into a number of things: dealing with the crew, the money and the studio, and the marketing and publicity. These are all different jobs that have to be learned and done as well as possible. The celebrity part rarely touches a director.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
‐‐ Stephen Frears

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.
‐‐ Shekhar Kapur

As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.
‐‐ Bong Joon-ho

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.
‐‐ Mike White

As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.
‐‐ Robert Stromberg

As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.
‐‐ Fede Alvarez

As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.
‐‐ Jonathan Levine

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.
‐‐ Jean-Marc Vallee

As a director, we work ridiculously hard on every detail, and we do everything to the billionth degree, and mostly people notice nothing.
‐‐ Catherine Hardwicke

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
‐‐ J. J. Abrams

As a director, you can't stop a guy if he thinks something's hysterical, because if you do, then he'll get depressed because he thinks he didn't come up with a good joke. So if a guy's going on some run and it's killing him, and he thinks it's hilarious, you gotta do enough so that he thinks you can use it in the movie.
‐‐ Evan Goldberg

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.
‐‐ Bryan Cranston

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.
‐‐ Stanley Tucci

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.
‐‐ Eli Roth

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.
‐‐ Juan Antonio Bayona

As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.
‐‐ Denis Villeneuve

As a director you're always so busy - you're go, go, go, you're always moving, moving, moving - so I'm not actually privy to all the weird stuff that's happening around me, but for a lot of the cast and crew, that's what I hear stories from them about weird stuff happening.
‐‐ James Wan

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
‐‐ Randa Haines

As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.
‐‐ Rob Marshall

As a director, you try to find what is creative.
‐‐ Jan de Bont

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.
‐‐ Catherine Hardwicke

As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.
‐‐ David Morrissey

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.
‐‐ DJ Jazzy Jeff