He and Orin exchange a naked handshake; their gaucherie, like so many embarrassments in the film, is the stuff of frat-house farce, yet what grips the director, Miguel Arteta, is not so much the gross-out as the tamp-down — the stumbles and stutters with which men, especially courteous ones, seek to negotiate the unsightly bumps of existence.
"We're still at a point where you have to say, 'I want to see all women assistant directors, grip, camera operators".' The concentration of women on the set gave those involved a sense of sisterhood, a notion that in portraying these activists they were also honoring them and one another.
Over-thinking is a TNT drama that occurs on a stage, inside your head, where you are the director, producer, actor, actress, supporting cast, key grip, sound manager, and executive assistant to the executive assistant of the casting director.
Bland criticised the BBC for being "slow to … get a grip under [former director general] Mark Thompson on the whole issue of pay".
During the filming, Mr. Britto was director, interviewer, grip and gaffer.
In New Mexico we scaled our incentives to match our specific tax structure, and we invested in programs at our universities and community colleges to train screenwriters, directors, actors, grips, electricians, makeup artists and other film professionals.
"Apocalypse Now" was written by Coppola in conjunction with John Milius, and there are times — not just the maniacal minutes of Kilgore — when you can sense the director losing grip of his own political uncertainties and starting to quail before the sure, hawkish touch of the Milius talon.
According to Berger, the need to share accelerators and other large-scale facilities has loosened many a lab director's grip on money and influence.
It was one of those spectacular times when the writer, producer, director, grips, engineers and actors were all on the same wavelength.
It seems perfectly reasonable that drama crafted by exquisitely talented writers, actors and directors, designed to grip from the outset, is proving a lot more compelling than a wearily familiar marital hand burrowing under the duvet.
