Quotes About Control

We have pretty much all the facets of our business under our control now. Relying on someone else to do the right thing, you're just setting yourself up to get screwed. We control our own destiny and it's a really good feeling.

I've never really focused on my ranking per se because it's out of my control. I try and do the right thing each week, and the ranking will look after itself.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.

The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

I think theatre is an actor's medium, while cinema is a director's medium.

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

Keep the masses fed and entertain them to keep them in line.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Claustrophobia is a theme that I feel is really rife in 'Sound of my Voice' and struggling to come up for air from that feeling.

I'm positive he's still scared of me. I know he's been slapped, but I hold the sole distinction of taking him down." "And she put a boot on his chest to hold him down while she threatened his life," Jack said. "I'm telling you, I almost exploded with lust. I had to marry her." Ellie

In life you are either a passenger or a pilot, it's your choice. —Author Unknown

Is Preacher pissed?" "Preacher hardly ever gets pissed," Jack said. "But just for future reference, you don't want to be around when he is.

You're right. I have to work on that. After all, I have some problems, but they're under control at the moment. And I'm going to move forward with Cameron. If he doesn't hate me too much…" "Oh, he doesn't." She shot him a questioning look. "I'm sure he doesn't," he amended. He smiled lamely. "I

Do you think it's a bad omen to meet in a cemetery?" she asked him. "I have a special fondness for this place," he said. "This is exactly where you completely lost control, threw yourself at me and passionately kissed me. I like it here." "I think I surprised myself more than you," she said. "Impossible. I thought I'd have to chase you for years before I got a kiss.

The world tends toward chaos, you know," Cassidy said. "I'm just helping it along.

You'll never escape the panopticon thinking like that.

And the concept of an extraordinary means of preserving life, or a risky, optional treatment that doctors don't recommend, is one I studied in graduate school and fascinates me to this day. It's the idea that the patient ultimately controls their own fate, and that is the greatest freedom you can have within a system that sees patients as their diagnosis rather than as people

A beginning of an unfinished conversation that I didn't have the guts to take control of.