Sentence examples for first-rate directors from inspiring English sources

Mr. Anderson's plays attracted not only top-flight actors but first-rate directors as well.

Like all first-rate directors, Brook believes in what Blake once called "the holiness of the minute particular".

He also recruited first-rate directors, including George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Nicholas Ray, Otto Preminger, and Orson Welles.

First-rate directors turned in middling work (Scorsese with "Hugo," Spielberg with "War Horse," Fincher with "Dragon Tattoo," Eastwood with "J.

Brecht's detestation of Thomas Mann, contempt for America's "depraved cuteness" and conviction that he and Chaplin are the only first-rate directors are not only very funny but symbols of his iron certainty.

By all accounts Ogden has been a first-rate director.

"Daniel is a first-rate director with a real passion for theatre," said Church.

It attracted a first-rate director in Peter Wood, who had just done a dazzling revival of The Iceman Cometh.

Mr. Hoffman, a first-rate actor who is showing increasing evidence of becoming a first-rate director, and his team serve up Ms. Gilman's toxic yet tepid brew as expertly as one could wish.

These men, along with the stars and producers, are responsible for what we think of as the art of 007; there has never been a world-class, first-rate director hired for Bond, and when a serious contender, Michael Apted, did get the job, for "The World Is Not Enough," the outcome bore no imprint of his style.

The movie offers two auspicious debuts: Mr. Washington's as a first-rate director of actors, and Derek Luke's as Antwone, an angry young sailor who with the help of a Navy psychiatrist (Mr. Washington) begins to heal many of his childhood wounds.