Box-office buzz Smith usually churns out pretty reliable box-office successes but with unpredictable director M Night Shyamalan (The Last Airbender) at the helm, anything could happen.
"Formula One is much more unpredictable," Martin Whitmarsh, the director of the McLaren team, said in a podcast before the U.S. Grand Prix, "and, as a consequence, much more entertaining than it was only a couple of years ago.
The point applies equally to this versatile director's unpredictable career.
Cis-genesis is still genetic engineering and subject to unpredictable effects," said Anne Petermann, director of the Global Justice Ecology Project.
The director's unpredictable oeuvre – his body of work is nothing if not varied – began with quirky black comedy (2005's The Illustrated Family Doctor) and reaches all the way to glossily produced mainstream hits (2011's Red Dog).
In the late 1990s, Mr. Schlingensief reached a broader audience as the director and unpredictable host of the television interview show "Talk 2000," a high-risk proposition for guests, since Mr. Schlingensief would occasionally turn on them, start talking about his personal problems or simply nod off as the cameras rolled.
Nicolas Cage, whose hammy intensity and baleful, unpredictable presence was a godsend for directors looking to bring power and presence to their films, is just one of those actors.
"I don't think he appreciated how sensitive and unpredictable artists can be," says Bill Werde, editorial director of Billboard.
"The visitors are actually baby sitters to make sure the unpredictable kids do not misbehave," said Efraim Inbar, the director of the Begin-Sadat Institute for Strategic Studies. Begin-Sadat Institute for Strategic Studies
Performance director Stuart Horsepool said the sport was unpredictable but the team were hoping their luck would change.
