The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
导演的第一个工作就是设定一个情绪，让演员的作品能够发生，让演员能够创作。为了做到这一点，你必须与演员交流。方向是关于各个层次的交流。
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
华丽的风格并不不适合公众演讲或演说，它们只相当于赞美。当没有更实在的东西可说的时候，那些轻浮的美人就在她们的位置上了;但是华丽的风格应该从恳求、布道或说教作品中去除。
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
冰川是上帝多年前用来碾磨、犁沟和揉捏地球表面的巨大犁。
The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play.
高尔夫球场离磨坊很近 几乎每天 劳动的孩子们可以向外看 看他们在玩。
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
世界上最伟大的教育是观察大师们的工作。
The happy people are those who are producing something.
快乐的人是那些有成就的人。
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
你越努力，就越难放弃。
The harder you work... and visualize something, the luckier you get.
你工作越努力……想象一下，你越幸运。
The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.
导演最难的部分是选择。不像演员可以做各种各样的工作，这是你生命中的一年，你不能做错。
The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
世界上最艰难的工作就是失业。
The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.
伟人所能达到并保持的高度不是靠突然的飞行所能达到的，而是当他们的同伴熟睡时，他们在夜间努力向上攀登。
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
人生的最高奖赏，人最大的财富，就是生来就对那些使他找到工作和幸福的事业怀有偏见。
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
你能给我的最高的赞美就是，我每天都努力工作，从不偷懒。
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
对人辛勤劳动的最高奖赏不是他得到了什么，而是他通过劳动成为了什么人。
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
房子必须让每个人都满意，而艺术作品则不然。这件作品是艺术家的私事。房子不是。