Sentence examples for take on directing from inspiring English sources

Riffing off: Disney's classic 1940 animation State of play: Indie icon Paul Thomas Anderson is writing the screenplay for a version of the Italian fable which will star Robert Downey Jr as Geppetto and could yet take on directing duties.

Often they take on directing and performing duties as well.

Winterbottom has long been credited as another producer of the project, but the Playlist's report is the first indication that he will also take on directing duties.

Nick Park will take on directing duties, helming his first movie since the short film Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death in 2008.

Lee will oversee the writing of a new script, as well as taking on directing duties.

A cabinet source said the decisions were likely to result in large costs to the taxpayer and that decisions would also need to be taken on direct rule in Northern Ireland and payment of the UK's £39bn divorce bill to the EU.

Turns out Pfeiffer wasn't up to the task of running the complex organization Compaq became — or taking on direct-sellers like Dell.

"We can't take on direct competitors" because of potential conflicts of interest, said Sonny King, chairman and chief executive of Advantage.

When questioned yesterday on the ABC television program "This Week" about expanding the role of his agency, Mr. Pitt said that the commission was already short on resources and could not easily take on direct responsibility for the accounting profession.

After nine years of military rule before that, the army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, seems to have little appetite to take on direct management of the country while he can enhance the military's image away from the political limelight.

The book, by Ben Elton, who also took on directing chores for this production (Christopher Renshaw was at the helm in the West End), is pitched at the level of a Saturday-morning television cartoon.