Sentence examples for upon directors from inspiring English sources

But Hollywood studios frowned upon directors putting themselves centre stage.

More often than not, retrospectives and formal honors are showered upon directors; and producers are stereotyped as penny-pinching ignoramuses.

And since Shakespeare's most musical and most frequently musicalized play generously bestows upon directors the artistic license to have their way with it, it is unfathomable that Mr. Warren's work, often so freeing, is suddenly locked into stereotype.

(Such faults in performance fall upon directors, not because they pull puppet strings but because they create the environment and offer the guidance from which the performances result, and then they choose what stays in the movie).

The wrinkle is the results are non-binding upon directors; the foxes are still policing themselves.

She was the glamorous presenter in designer clothes; I was the put-upon director, trolling away in the corner.

(Inside the house the story isn't any happier; this week Helga Schmidt, the Palau de les Arts's too-long-put-upon director, announced she's stepping down).

The dross of Frank Sinatra's home-movie vanity project has been transformed into a ridiculously enjoyable caper directed with brio by Steven Soderbergh, who brings off the combination of action and tongue-in-cheek comedy which eluded the chairman of the board and his put-upon director Lewis Milestone.