Elsewhere, less soberly he noted: "God's a super-director /who's terribly good at crowd scenes".
One might need to splice together the DNA of Terrence Malick, David Lynch, and the Coen Brothers into one mutant super director to do it justice.
"TRAFFIC" Steven Soderbergh (a super-hot director after "Erin Brockovich") directed this thriller (adapted from a British mini-series) about the international drug trade, which entwines several interrelated dramas.
Gervais was a failed pop star and an unsuccessful manager long before he was a super successful writer, director and actor.
NEW YORK — Imagine that you are a super-successful movie director, who's been given hundreds of millions of dollars and lots of whiz-bang technology to make a cinematic epic.
Along the way the evasive Abulkasem re-emerges as everyone from a world-renowned terrorist to a female avant-garde theater director to a "super pro pimp" at a singles bar.
"The case is in many ways simple and strikes at basic values…and a super simple proposition," said ACLU National Deputy Legal Director Louise Melling.
(The spot is largely free of commercial messaging; a simple note at the end will ask consumers to help fight AIDS and detail the download information. Incidentally, Romanek is hardly the only name film director behind a Super Bowl spot: Tom Hooper and Carl Rinsch also directed commercials, for Jaguar and Kia, respectively).
Mr Pozen suggests assembling a small cadre of financially fluent "super-directors" who would meet more often say, two or three days a month rather than an average of six days a year, as now—and may serve on only one other board to ensure they take the job seriously.That sounds sensible, but the case for another suggested reform creating independent risk committees at board level is less clear.
Other efforts, including a super PAC launched by writer-director Joss Whedon ("The Avengers," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and an open letter from the extended "Star Trek" family — seem more elaborate than usual.
Now a prominent businessman in Madison, Wis., in real estate, banking and Burger King restaurants, he is on the Green Bay Packers' board of directors and received a Super Bowl XLV ring.
