For the rest of us, it was like the scene in The Truman Show when the mad director commands daybreak, and an assistant flicks a switch.
"Deep" is a success because it shows its directors' command of the genre.
But for all the skill, it's mainly an evening of academic interest: it's extraordinary to see the most humanist of directors commanding a tinkling, anxiety-causing, mechanistic drama.
NASA officials recommended that Mr. O'Malley, who was still working for General Dynamics, be hired by North American as its new director of command module launch operations.
Over the years, the director's command of landscape and action developed, but, for drama, "The Furies," which fully lives up to its title, remains unrivalled.
But all the dreamy atmospheric tricks at a director's command can't conceal the harsh truth that the play's second act (and a lot of its third) is second-drawer Williams, stirred into an overheated potboiler.
The director's command of his medium is spellbinding, and Melissa Mathison's screenplay is nearly flawless: with minimal dialogue, the movie expresses a range of emotions that will be accessible to the youngest children and resonant to even the most jaded adults.
A lobbyist who worked as a subcommittee staff director can command a salary that puts him in the top one percent of all earners.
The soldiers were actors, the airport crowd were actors and the "soldiers" came in through the gates and the onlookers rose from their seats on the film director's command.
Director Robert Mueller commanded his personnel to stay away from the C.I.A.'s coercive interrogations.
It is now common for experienced housing managers to earn a minimum £40,000, and it is not unusual for top chief executives or directors to command salaries of up to £100,000.
