Sentence examples for serious director from inspiring English sources

It was the first time I was seen as a serious director of the classics.

"He was a serious director," Gregory Peck, who starred in On The Beach, once said.

Then afterwards I thought: that was my opportunity to be a serious director.

Plus Hollywood was eager to heap praise on Affleck the comeback kid, who had atoned for personal and professional missteps in his past and was now being groomed (rightly so) as a Serious Director To Watch.

In 1995 he made The Bridges Of Madison County, one of the directing roles that, with Unforgiven, raised his profile as a serious director; he called Robert James Waller's novel "fancy, pretentious writing" that he had "fought" to get through.

As Laurence Oliver might have remarked: "Haven't you ever heard of acting, dear boy?" Dennis was simultaneously a poster child for 1960s revolt and marijuana-smoking, but he was also a serious director and actor who worked for Henry Hathaway in cowboy films and died, twice, in John Wayne's arms.

Whether through passion or contingency, increasing numbers of serious directors with critical credibility are embracing 3D for their own ends.

But so far the sort of mainstream hit scored by other "serious" directors of opera and drama like Trevor Nunn (with "Cats"), Nicholas Hytner ("Miss Saigon") and Julie Taymor ("The Lion King") has eluded Ms. Zambello, and not for lack of trying.

There's a Mel Brooks joke – a joke that he probably secretly believed in – where he argues that he had a harder job than the "serious" directors he was sending up.

The paradoxes are rampant: on one hand, the ongoing sustenance of a popular film industry is something of a precondition for the emergence of serious directors, who need cast and crew, distributors and theatres, materiel and its suppliers and when an industry collapses, it's hard for filmmakers to reëstablish it by the sheer force of their vision.

The producer's devotion to fostering the work of serious directors emerges from his overall identity as a man of aesthetic refinement and artistic commitment; his public and private lives are one (which may be why, when his business is about to collapse, so does he — not merely his business but his self-image is menaced).