#direct

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. ↗

— Orson Welles

#mediocre #movie #perfect #refuge

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab. ↗

— David Wenham

#feature #i #love #produce #really

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion. ↗

— Dianne Wiest

#directors #get #opinion #pain #recognized

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring. ↗

— Dianne Wiest

#business #cash #cash register #commercial #directions

I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#casting director #director #door #get #girl

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. ↗

— James Wolcott

#chicken #direction #down #easy #edited

Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to. ↗

— Edward Witten

#direction #enter #everything #familiar #fuzzy

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#directed #eating #friend #him #i

He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#directly #humanity #opposed #rewarding #say

I did find my direction at an early age. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#did #direction #early #early age #find