Moreover many of the current criticisms aren't really directed against the standards themselves but against the frantic directives that principals and superintendents are sending out to teachers.
"Those weren't really directed against me," Mr. Babenco explained.
Donner hasn't really directed anything for the past decade, and the movie's original screenwriter has moved on to bigger and better things, like Adam Sandler's latest cinematic turd, Pixels.
At his best, he doesn't really direct a film so much as host it.
"You can't really direct them - it's just letting them go and start talking," Ben Stiller said.
At his best, he doesn't really direct a film so much as host it — keeping all his characters involved, rescuing the wallflowers, making sure that everyone is plied with lines and bits of stage business, as if he were topping up drinks.
"And I'd put Tim right up there with those gentlemen because -- just like with Hitchcock, Coppola and Allen -- Burton doesn't really direct his actors.
Derek didn't really direct.
"You don't really direct Debra," he says.
Because it sounds like you weren't really direct with him.
