The phrase "a strong director" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a director who demonstrates effective leadership, vision, and decision-making skills in their role.
Example: "The film was a success largely due to the efforts of a strong director who knew how to bring out the best in the cast."
Alternatives: "an effective director" or "a powerful director".
That had a strong director.
I'm always attracted to a strong director".
He also has said he would appoint a "strong" director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy.
"The sooner we get a strong director the better, and we should do this as quickly as we can".
Mr. Portman wanted a Senate-confirmed inspector general for the new agency, as well as a board of directors to monitor a strong director.
He now essays an even bigger challenge, but in Simon Godwin, who did a first-rate Two Gentlemen of Verona for the RSC, he has a strong director.
But one couldn't help thinking that a stronger director could have taken the same material and extended mere superficial gesture into coherent eloquence.
Matti Salminen, although he sometimes stepped over the line into cartoon villainy (which could be easily curbed by a stronger director), nonetheless sang a Hagen to rank with the best of the past.
But pressed, he says he thinks that "you could get somebody stronger," and adds, "I believe that you, that we need a strong, strong director of central intelligence that will assert himself and will have the power and the backing of the president to be the chief of staff, I mean, the C.E.O. of the whole intelligence community".
These are hard problems for a director to solve, and Marion McClinton is an adequate but not terribly strong director.
Their main idea was the recognition that despite the inherently collaborative filmmaking process a strong director is in effect a movie's author and, as such, is an artist at a level of creativity and autonomy comparable to that of writers, painters, or composers.
