No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.
God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God. God loves mankind so much, and in a very special sense His children, that He has made Himself available to you at all times.
Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.
I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.
It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.
Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, hasbeen respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.
I think there's a danger that some people look at the success of my first movie as a fluke. So I want to make sure that my second film is an even bigger success. Then if I direct my third movie and it's terrible, it'll be okay.
However, today due to civil litigation funded by cults this option for families has been eliminated. Instead, the only form of cult intervention now practiced is voluntary-with the exception of minor children under the direct supervision of a custodial parent.
There's a lot to be said for being in a room with a casting agent or a director. There are things you can't really replicate when you're self-taping and there's the bonus of having someone to direct you, which is extremely helpful. The benefit of self-taping is, I suppose, being on your own clock. It's certainly more relaxing to self-tape than to audition with someone in the flesh but I don't know if it's necessarily better.
Direct mail - it falls out of every magazine you open these days
I'm very direct. It's part of my personality. I've actually grown into that.
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.
See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that you're like, "I really should go do something else. " But then you are drawn back in by a particular story, like a hangnail in the brain.
I feel that I have a certain amount of experience and I'm still learning so much. But a director's job is so vast; they have so much to do with the preparation. You have to be great with all kinds of personalities and you have to be very patient, there's a lot of skills I'm not sure if I have. So I don't know if I'm ready to direct, but who knows what the future has.