Sentence examples for director turning from inspiring English sources

Hitchcock was not the only young British director turning the critics' heads in the 1920s.

"You look no worse than you did yesterday," jokes Nick Luff, Centrica's finance director, turning to a grinning Sam Laidlaw.

Subsequently, Ms. Hunt indicated that she wanted to rework the play with another director, turning it into a one-woman show.

Democratic officials said Obama today would name Peter Orszag as his budget director, turning to Congress' chief adviser on spending and taxes as he fills out his economic team.

Working with a team of actors, a few funders, and his own production lot, he operates more like the leader of a repertory theatre than like an industry director, turning out films that find broad national audiences across a vast stylistic range.

Despite Mr. Cronenberg's demurrals these two films, and "Spider" (2002), seem to show a director turning away from the special-effects-driven fantasies of his earlier work, from "The Fly" (a love story about a man-fly mutation) and "Crash" (a group of sexed-up car crash victims) toward a starker, less amusing brand of human violence.

The great director turned 71 last birthday.

The director turned 74 in September.

But, just as his friend had predicted, the station's director turned him down.

Joe Ladd, an advertising account director, turned to Catchafire when he was between jobs this summer.

Mr. Marshall, a Broadway choreographer and director turned filmmaker, had powered that musical to a best picture Oscar in 2002.