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• The best actors are always the ones who’ve directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.

  Alexander Payne

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• I’ve acted with all types, I’ve directed all types. What you want to understand, as a director, is what actors have to offer. They’ll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.

  Ron Howard

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• I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote ’21 Jump Street’ and I’m in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I’m just trying to learn as much as possible.

  Jonah Hill

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• I’ve never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I’ve written, ‘The Sophisticates,’ is a… small ensemble comedy and I hope it’s charming and funny.

  Lena Headey

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• I’ve never directed anything before ‘Mad Men,’ so I don’t feel I have any advice for the other directors.

  John Slattery

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• We were doing press for this movie that my friends and I made for $5,000 called ‘Brothers Justice,’ that I also wrote and directed. And during the press of that, people kept saying, ‘What’s next, what’s next?’ And my best friend Nate and I – Nate produced it – we kept saying, ‘Oh, we’re gonna do a car-chase movie next.’

  Dax Shepard

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• My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

  Aldous Huxley

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• Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

  Bram Stoker

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• Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine’s beauty and Renee’s frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

  Colleen Atwood

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• I’ve directed enough in the theater and a couple of films to know that – to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat

  Gary Sinise

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• Never look for the story in the ‘lede.’ Reporters are required to put what’s happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

  William Safire

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• I directed a movie and now, I’m going to do the editing.

  Salma Hayek

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• I think I’ve had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

  Charlie Kaufman

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• David Boreanaz is actually a very good director and he directed one of our episodes. Excellent director, knew exactly what he wanted. We never had long days with David. He was great, he knew exactly what he wanted and he’s a fantastic director.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

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• Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

  Elizabeth Fry

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• You’re allowed to make things for women on television and there’s not like… you don’t have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it’s just accepted, whereas if it’s a feature, it’s like ‘So, talk to me about chick flicks.’

  Callie Khouri

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• I’ve also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

  Richard King

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• Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don’t like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.

  Rem Koolhaas

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• 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

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• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  C. L. R. James

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