Quotes About Control

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

Most actors who direct do it because they've been directed by so many bad directors.

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Thanks to centuries of island freedom, when we were able to decide who came in and who didn't, it is far easier to disappear in Britain than in almost any other country in the world.

If I disappoint someone, it's their loss for putting that expectation on me when they don't know me. I can't control what they want.

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.

Discipline is important for everything in life.

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.

Discipline is creating the situation.

Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.

We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget.

My father gave me discipline.

I'm a very, very disciplined person.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.