Director Quotations | Page 7

I succumbed to temptation and became a scientific administrator, first as Technical Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1982 to 1984, and then Director from 1984 to 1999. The job of a laboratory director is much different from the job of a physicist, particularly in a time of tight budgets. It is much easier to do physics when someone else gets the funds than it is to get the funds for others to do the research.

I just trust the director and never overanalyse the script, screenplay, etc. You are just taking a bet at the end of the day, so confidence, be it on the filmmaker or the script, is all that counts.

I just met the director for the fifth Harry Potter and they are all really positive about things,

City council had said no to the big box re-zoning, and this seemed a good opportunity as well. The director had contacted us and asked us for material to include in the film, and we think the Vancouver experience is going to be part of that film.

Being a director or a conductor is a balance of many things. And to do it right is a very difficult tightrope to walk. I've come to the conclusion that there's really no way to be one hundred percent popular as conductor.

Campbell Ogilvie has gradually relinquished day-to-day involvement with the club's football administrative tasks. He will now assist the board, acting as a consultant on strategic footballing matters and give up his executive duties while remaining as a director of the board in a non executive capacity.

Cameron has a tremendous following out there as a director . . . He's a presence in his own right. He has autograph seekers around him.

Because the donor of these funds has admitted to activities which are illegal and which we deplore as detrimental to our form of government, the executive director of the Rely On Your Beliefs (committee) will recommend that the board donate these funds to a charity.

He's the first athletic director since I've been coaching the ski team to come to a race. He came up on the bus with us, leaving at 2:30 p.m. and not getting back till 8:30 p.m. when we went to Mount Southington.

I don't think it adds any more pressure on the tournament director or creates any resentment. Hey, I've had tournaments where I've shot 89 in the first rounds, and I was top 80 in the world rankings. That's just part of competitive golf and she'll get over it.

Becoming artistic director at L.A. Opera feels less like a major change in my life there than a kind of upgrading,

Because of a greater focus on governance, the resignation of a director certainly has a greater weight attached to it. Boards have greater power. In the past, directors just faded into the sunset.

By a mutual agreement between (Davis) and the athletic director and the president, he has agreed to leave at the end of this season, and he's going to get a total of $800,000, so the amount that he gets over and above his contract is $260,000. In round numbers, it's one more year of salary. He's walking away with three years' salary instead of two.

Hong Kong comic actor and director Stephen Chow said Tuesday he'll start filming the sequel to his action film

He's the most real, down-to-earth guy I've worked with. George is as comfortable talking to a film crew as he is talking with a director or star. He's got an old-fashioned sense of modesty and style. He's our modern-day Gary Cooper or Cary Grant.

He's the most giving, generous, great, helpful, open, honest director you could work with as an actor. It's like an education.

If I asked him to line the field before the game, he would do it well and probably better than anyone out there. He does so many things so well. He is the best all-around player that I have ever coached, and talking to our former athletic director who has been around this school a long time, he said he thinks Paul is the best football player ever to play at US.

I felt that if I would chew a certain way and the director would let me do whatever.

I can't wait for the season to start! I'm sure every Director of Rugby and coach is in the same boat and really looking forward to the start of the new campaign. It's the time of year when everyone starts with zero on the table and everything in front of you is still in your own hands.

I do think that one of the things the investors must do is ask the questions -- they have a responsibility (to ask) 'Why should I believe you just because you're a finance director telling me your company's wonderful?'

I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That, to me, is not really a dangerous, risky proposition. It's actually a really good choice.

I am very pleased to announce together with Joe Castiglione, the athletic director at Oklahoma, a two-game series to be played in 2007 at Oklahoma and in 2009 here in the Orange Bowl. Each of us has won a national title since 2000. This will be a great series played by two of college football's legendary teams. I'm pleased that the new 12-game schedule has allowed the playing of this game and several others which we have scheduled with Texas A&M and Ohio State.

I appreciate fully that Mr de Menezes' family and the public will want to understand what happened. It is now right and proper that the Director of Public Prosecutions fully and carefully considers the matter.

I am very high right now. I am so proud of the production of my play we have in New York and grateful to director Mark Brokaw and all the actors and actresses who played the roles.

I am pleased that three Sun Belt (Conference) schools could come to the aid of LSU at a time when it faces many difficulties, ... I applaud the efforts of athletic director Rick Villarreal and his counterparts to bring this to a workable solution.

I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.

I do pay attention to the way the script envisages the world and how that view is conveyed through the roles, as well as what the director wants to express.

He's not a hermit, and he doesn't hide behind trees or anything, He's been rather active in the community. The largest charity fundraiser in South Florida is the Naples Winter Wine Festival. He's a director of that.

I'd love to do more theater in New York City. And I'd love the chance to do a big movie with a great director -- you know, the Coen brothers or Woody Allen or Steven Spielberg, ... I'd love a shot at that.

I do not find anyone today really in charge. You cannot possible argue today that the director of central intelligence is in charge.

He acted as though he didn't know where he was, and he immediately got the attention of the producers and the director of the film. He was chosen for the part on that basis -- they didn't know what to think of him. They were astounded by him.

You'd be surprised how hard it is getting the human emotional arc in a script to work. Ultimately a director stands and falls by their ability to do that.

You constantly have to find something that's challenging, a director who's challenging, co-stars who are challenging. That's what keeps us going.

The idea is to try to get relationships developed because it's my thought that when an athletic director has to hire a major coach, he doesn't have time to really start meeting people. There's the statement made that ADs hire people they know. Well, it's true. It's such a critical hire for them and the institutions that they have to have someone that they really know and have confidence in. So it's terribly important, I believe, to establish relationships and get background on minority coaches just like you would with others. So we took some extra effort to make sure that occurs.

The emphasis on Division I athletics director experience automatically puts minorities at a disadvantage. As a result, it is unclear whether the best possible candidates are being considered for top jobs. And we end up with people making decisions who don't reflect the athletes on the playing field or courts.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.Like Tyler says, even a souffle' looks pumped.

The head of intelligence for the NYPD is the former deputy director of the CIA, ... I would take his word before I would take some spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security's word.

The hard work of numerous volunteers from the end user community, working in concert with technology suppliers and OEM's, was very apparent this week. Our affiliation with ISA in 2005 has been a major contributor to our progress. In this past year, we have applied more resources, increased the extent of our collaborations, heightened our visibility, and secured our future. With ISA's assistance, we have brought a technical director on board to help facilitate our work, developed strategic business plans for each of our working groups, started the rejuvenation of our manufacturing infrastructure group, implemented a new web site and a series of email lists, and launched a web seminar program to fulfill our educational mission.

The great fire practically put an end to the activity of the Chicago Observatory and forced its director to pursue his work in other fields.

Although coach Davis reaffirmed his belief that he can take our program to the levels to which we aspire, he nevertheless expressed his view that this is an appropriate time for the athletic director and me to consider a coaching change for next year. Consistent with his request, we have done that.

All the videos we have done have been our ideas, our concepts. We're a very conscious band of the way we present ourselves onstage and the artwork for the record and everything like that. So every time we do videos, it's the same thing. We sit down with the director and have him make our vision come true.

The church youth director where I was a teen in New York had such energy and dedication,

The dovetailing of a new director and a new museum, it was the perfect time for someone to come in and build a truly new institution.

The funny thing about directing is that you have your own opinions, but it's a collaboration. Directing is a group effort. Even though you might think something works, the smartest thing you can do as a director is try and weigh the opinions of the people around you.

The first thing was to get the athletic director in on board.

The first film that I can remember seeing where, like, I just couldn't stop watching it - and it didn't necessarily make me want to be a director because I was so young, but it made me know that that's what I wanted to be doing - was 'Alien.' And I saw that when I was probably just over 10 years old.

The first assistant director runs the set. The whole mood of the movie, the whole tenor of the set comes off that person, and it's just a critical choice.

(The film festival) has become very popular in a lot of different communities. And the director of the world tour says that the films are as good as he's ever seen them.

The first day the executive director walks through the door, it should take no more than five months - it might be done in 4 1/2 months.

The company has effectively accepted only two of three of the committee's director nominees and thereby violated Korean law.

The community must initiate this. It cannot be done by PAT. Jeff Stephan, executive director of the Carnegie Community Development Corporation, had a group there that evening.

The Department of State has now reviewed the Palm Beach County ballot. Clay Roberts, director of the Division of Elections, and Deborah Kearney, general counsel for the Department of State, have determined that the design and layout of the ballot does conform to the law of the state of Florida,

The difference from project to project is that departure point. In this case, it was really an abstract idea, an issue of citizenship, but it might be a Chekhov short story or a story from 'The Iliad.' You can really fit anything in there, but what's consistent is that the writer and the director are chosen, the actors are all present before the play begins.

The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research.

The director of national intelligence that the president proposed would indeed have no more authority than the current director of central intelligence has.

The director notified all employees that interim changes have been made to the FBI security program, including an expansion of the use of the polygraph to cover employees in sensitive areas.

The director made it really clear that I don't sell any of these photographs." ()

The director knows that right now basketball is tops, so he works around that.

The director Jerry Damiano sat on trial, sat on the witness chair and pointed and said, 'yeah, that's the guy who had sex in my movie' and he was let go. Same with Linda Lovelace, 'That's the guy I had sex with in the movie DEEP THROAT', I was the defendant, they were witnesses, it makes no sense.

The director is the teller of the film, the director tells the movie, like you would tell a story, except in this case you're telling a movie.

The director is Rob Marshall, who directed 'Chicago.' It looks to be a very beautiful film.

The Director General's report will now be transmitted to New York for action by the Security Council.

All of the cast, Director Lenny West and our Board of Directors agreed this would be a great idea.

The major sponsors have decided not to release the letter and it will remain between us and CCA executive director Dave Parkes,

I should be committed to an institution immediately for even thinking I could get away with that. These two things are opposing, they oppose one another. To be a director you have to be in complete control of the set, complete control of the surroundings, and very aware of what's going on, what's being used and what's not being used... It's insanity. To be an actor you have to be, in a sense, out of control.