Sentence examples for intelligent director from inspiring English sources

"Back at the RCS, playing an iconic character opposite one of the most distinguished actors in the country, under the watchful eye of a passionate, intelligent director?

"Because of the laziness of this otherwise intelligent director, Vadim's life's work creates an impression of superficiality, if not actual mediocrity," a French cinema dictionary noted.

But what I think many enemies of "auteurist" theater may forget is that any successful production of Shakespeare today (modern-dress or otherwise) necessarily needs an intelligent director at the helm.

But Mr. Salles, an intelligent director whose films include "The Motorcycle Diaries," doesn't invest "On the Road" with the wildness it needs for its visual style, narrative approach and leads.

We are left with a portrait of an affable, intelligent director with a chaotic streak, who is ambivalent about what he calls "the highly trained nit wits marinated in professional sourness".

You can see why such an intelligent director as Vick would want to move beyond the old cliches of Victorian Arthurianism with which he, like the rest of us in the UK, grew up.

It depends on the education and nurturing of intelligent directors and an intelligent audience.

Intelligent directors like Christopher Nolan, Paul Greengrass and Sam Mendes have been hired to direct blockbuster franchises to widen the appeal of these films beyond teenage boys.

What is difficult to understand is why two such intelligent directors have wasted their talents on three hours of blood and thunder.

The liberating sweetness of the earlier movie has mellowed into a saltier, sadder flavor, but Mr. Linklater, one of our most literate and intelligent directors, has not talked himself out of the possibility of romance, and the movie's relaxed, discursive structure is dense with implied feeling and oblique drama (A. O. Scott).

And as some readers noted, Shakespeare in performance is almost always trimmed if not cut considerably, another factor that requires an intelligent, sensitive director's hand.