Sentence examples for competent directors from inspiring English sources

And ousting otherwise competent directors, without warning, over pay seems extreme.

Because of this, they claim, the risks of serving as a director or officer have become too great, and it will become harder to recruit and retain competent directors and officers.

Occasionally we lack competent directors to motivate us.

Pauline Kael described him as a competent director "with a good serviceable technique for integrating staged movie action into documentary city locations".

Before that, Mr. Obama must choose a competent director and pledge his administration's full support to spend whatever is necessary to salvage the count.

Not only must the adaptation be helmed by a competent director – a skilled script writer and talented ensemble cast are also necessary to ensure a movie's success.

Many event pictures were, of course, the sort of dumb but craftsmanlike entertainments any competent director could have made (the better James Bond epics, for example, or The Towering Inferno, or the Airport sagas).

By the 1950s Wise was well established as a reliable, competent director who finished films on schedule, including Two Flags West (1950), a formulaic American Civil War story; Three Secrets (1950), a suspenseful soap opera; and The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), a noirish espionage tale.

It's an incoherent effort, but its low opinion of officialdom and its nihilistic worldview meant its barely competent director, Carlo Croccolo, reached across the decades directly into my current anxieties in a way that Star Wars: The Force Awakens did not.

(That reminds me to watch The Thin Red Line again soon. Now there's a competent director).

On the other hand, Lawrence is a more-than-competent director and Catching Fire has the much-hyped Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3) alongside Slumdog Millionaire's Simon Beaufoy as screenwriters.