Sentence examples for fictional director from inspiring English sources

Philip D. Zelikow, executive director of the 9/11 commission, served as the fictional director of national intelligence.

There the parody and the comic exaggeration vanish, as Sturges embeds in comedy the grand social vision that his fictional director can't accomplish in drama.

William H. Macy is the fictional director, Alec Baldwin and Sarah Jessica Parker the stars, and Philip Seymour Hoffman the screenwriter.

This was a Hollywood in-joke about the fictional director whose name appeared on movies whenever the original director demanded the removal of his credit.

Petty found the directors — Zebub, Vogel, and Marcisak, Petty's friend who played the fictional director Rost — at the Chiller Convention, an underground horror event.

The Pakistan depicted in Homeland, a "shithole" as the fictional director of the CIA, Director Lockhart puts it, isn't just far from the truth - it's actually on a different continent.

At one point the new film's protagonist, Mitch Haven (Tygh Runyan), a fictional movie director besotted with his unknown hand-picked star, Laurel Graham (Shannyn Sossamon), recites George Santayana's poem "As in the Midst of Battle There Is Room".

Fritz Lang, playing himself, is cast as the fictional film's director.

Using nonprofessional actors and mixing documentary and fictional techniques, the director, John Gianvito, has assembled three stories about residents of New Mexico whose lives are turned upside-down by the culture of militarism.

Expletive-laden tirades against hapless chefs and kitchen staff have become Gordon Ramsay's signature dish, while Malcolm Tucker, the BBC's fictional Downing Street director of communications in The Thick of It, barely opens his mouth without uttering a four-letter word or six.

Bernstein's work, he says, focuses on "primary projects" – which include work on a "largely fictional" film with director Steven Soderberg, which "has political overtones, but goes way beyond politics", and a TV series for an unnamed cable network "about the US Congress" on which he has been working, apparently, for four or five years.