A Quote by Morris Chestnut

You have to be insane to direct. — © Morris Chestnut
You have to be insane to direct.

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I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.
You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.
The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.
Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.
Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.
In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?
I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to.
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.
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