"There's some other real cool directors there," he told me later.
Mr. Woo, at one time the coolest director in the world, has usually been thought of as a guilty pleasure, but that now seems wrong.
It's great, working with a very cool director's vision and the writer's cool vision.
Only in his later years did he get the credit he deserved, with testimonials from writers with lit-cred, including Martin Amis, and the imprimatur of two of the coolest movie directors of our time: Quentin Tarantino, who turned Rum Punch into the movie Jackie Brown (1997), and Steven Soderbergh, who adapted Out of Sight (1998).
Emphatically a non-actress at the beginning of that decade, she became a hot commodity after getting roles from cool kid directors like Robert Altman, Peter Bogdonavich, and Mike Nichols.
"Wicked cool!" the director said, hooking up to an amp.
With audiences reeling from the shock of Reservoir Dogs two years earlier, the mantle of world's coolest film director was his for the taking.
Spike Jonze, the impossibly cool young director of "Being John Malkovich," who could take lunches in a bathing suit at Spago if he felt like it, is a suit guy.
Its "Where the Music Lives," at the Julia Miles Theater, features five tap dancers and seven musicians, including the ridiculously cool musical director Tommy James, a longtime collaborator of Savion Glover's.
"The fact that it's being brought about by a woman, and a minority woman at that, is pretty cool," Microsoft Director of Supplier Diversity and Global Procurement Fernando Hernandez told TechCrunch.
