#direct

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#director

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#break #cable #difficult #directors #easier

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#development #diplomatic #directed #experts #house

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. ↗

— Edward Said

#caught #completely #directly #english #felt

If there is no direct threat why are we invading? ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#invading #threat #why

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#case #changed #control #days #deal

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#about #act #acting #chance #director

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#husband #i #i do #understands

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#directed #greater #lesser #more #often

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself. ↗

— Asia Argento

#directors #few #i #me #myself