Quotes About Control

Law, without force, is impotent.

You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.

Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

Theatre is an actor's medium. An actor has little control over a film. Which is why most actors who have done theatre, and then come to films find the former more creatively satisfying.

Every day you are in the media for good or for bad and sometimes this is not helping the driver or the team to control the driver in the best way as well. But Ferrari is Ferrari and the biggest, most famous team in Formula One, so you have a lot more pressure there than at another team.

Formula One cars are very difficult to drive, and we need all of our skills.

I think it's impossible to drive a Formula One car with one hand.

I think that's a very good point they're bringing into Formula One at the moment, to get rid of all the electronics. And I think that's what a Formula One driver needs. That's why they are a Formula One driver. They need to drive themselves.

It's in my nature to want every image of me to be authentic but at the end of the day as a model, I don't always get control over how someone decides to put forth my picture.

I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.

I have never fought in my life but I can be very angry, especially on the pitch.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

I like the camera to be still and not very shaky and have everything happen within the frame.

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

In 'The Greatest Showman,' I'm back doing VFX myself, allowing me to craft exactly how something looks, one frame at a time.

Obviously you can stash money under your mattress, cut down on hazelnut lattes, but in terms of the larger economic frame of our lives, we have very little agency. About one of the only things you can do is understand it.

When I got on my first set, I watched what the cinematographer was doing, and at that level in film school, the cinematographer has the most control. They're the one looking through the viewfinder, carrying the camera, framing the shots.