Although Scott is often known for his painterly directorial style, other techniques and elements include:

Critics saw the influence of the horror and science-fiction films of the 1950s in Romero's directorial style.

According to Beaumont, the directorial style is not informed by his satiric intent.

Often contrasted with auteur directors such as Stanley Kubrick, who tended to bring a distinctive directorial " look " to a particular genre, Wise is famously viewed to have allowed his ( sometimes studio assigned ) story to dictate style.

When it was first released, the film received a mixed response and garnered exceptionally harsh reviews from New York critics — Stanley Kauffmann (" the film bloats into sogginess ", The New Republic ); Pauline Kael (" amateurishly crude ", The New Yorker ); and Andrew Sarris — partly because of its directorial style and broad ethnic humor.

There were major setbacks in the film's production due to cost and time overruns, negative press, and rumors about director Michael Cimino's allegedly overbearing directorial style.

The same basic stereotypical elements present in the earlier Censored Eleven films are also present in Coal Black, depicted with more detail and made to conform to Clampett's " wacky " directorial style.

Renowned for his sadistic directorial style and numerous instances of reducing acting students or actors he was directing to tears and / or nervous breakdowns, very few people doubt his genius.

According to Tarantino's audio commentary on the DVD release, he was happy with the way it turned out as, apart from changing the nonlinear narrative he wrote to a more conventional linear structure, it was largely faithful to his original screenplay and, although he initially opposed director Tony Scott's decision to change the ending ( which Scott maintained was of his own volition, not the studio's, saying " I just fell in love with these two characters and didn ’ t want to see them die ") he realized when seeing the completed film that Scott's happy ending was more appropriate to the film as he had directed it, whereas the originally scripted ending would have been more suited to Tarantino's directorial style.

Altman's experimental directing style was still developing, but one sign of his future directorial achievements can be seen in a story told by one of Altman's young cast members, SuEllen Fried, about the shooting of a party scene in the film: “ He rented an old house off Walworth Boulevard and told us to pretend we were having the wildest party of our lives, while he moved the camera from room to room and just filmed whatever was going on.

Upon release, the film met with mixed reviews from film critics and received polarizing reactions to Karan Johar's " larger-than-life " directorial style.

According to Keaton's biographer Rudi Blesh, Chaplin eased his notoriously rigid directorial style to give Keaton free rein to invent his own comic business during this sequence.

The film is an example of Roeg's well-defined directorial style, characterized by strong visual composition from his experience as a cinematographer, combined with extensive cross-cutting and the juxtaposition of events, location, or environments to build his themes.

Hanks found admiration for Dante's directorial style, saying " Joe has a stylized, visionary way of looking at the entire movie.

One of her directorial credits there is an innovative 1998 production of William Shakespeare's As You Like It performed in a Brazilian jazz style.

They were noteworthy more for their strong performances than they were for a distinctive directorial style.

Though his significance as director of The Great Train Robbery and other innovative early films is undeniable, he rarely repeated an innovation after he had used it successfully, never developed a consistent directorial style, and in later years never protested when others rediscovered his techniques and claimed them as their own.

It is generally longer and more detailed than an outline ( or one-page synopsis ), and it may include details of directorial style that an outline omits.

He was also known for breaking down the directorial system in animation, allowing individual key animators to exert their own style into a particular work.

Future horror director William Castle was still developing his own style, and Katzman allowed him to cut his directorial teeth on a series of low-budget films.

Critic Sam Adams wrote about Fritz Lang directorial style, " Restraint was never Fritz Lang's problem.

Palmer has an eclectic and robust directorial style, and has worked on such diverse projects as her own A Play About the Mothers of the Plaza del Mayo, which made a compelling use of the Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, a production of Pal Joey at the Shaw Festival in 2004, and several plays by Ann-Marie MacDonald, whom she married in 2003 .< ref >

Frank's directorial style remained suitable for serials, but failed to evolve.

Even though he writes that Mulholland Falls " goes about its business without a trace of finesse " he approved of the direction and the acting in the film, especially Jennifer Connelly's " haunting presence ," writing, " Mulholland Falls combines a vivid sense of place with a visceral directorial style that fuses controlled fury onto everything it touches.

Some directors still balk at the use of " pan and scan " versions of their movies because they feel it compromises the directorial vision with which their movies were created.

The film is seen as an early example of Kurosawa's immediate grasp of the film-making process, and includes many of his directorial trademarks, such as the use of wipes, weather patterns as reflections of character moods, and abruptly changing camera speeds.

It is most notable for the first use of the pseudonymous Allen Smithee directorial credit.

The film developed a dedicated cult following, which remains strong today, perhaps due to its directorial and aesthetic indulgences, early 1980s new wave soundtrack, and the use of iconic Los Angeles locations.

At the dawn of his directorial career ( 1937 – 40 ), while turning out low-budget B-Westerns, he earned the derogatory nickname " Wagon-Wheel Joe " from the studio editors, because of his tendency to use wagon-wheels for constructing interesting visual compositions within the frame.

McKimson's first directorial work, Daffy Doodles ( at least his first released directorial work, though it was for the most part a Frank Tashlin cartoon ; he cut his actual directorial teeth on a Seaman Hook wartime cartoon for military audiences in 1944 ), wherein Daffy draws moustaches on all the pre-drawn ( and even some natural ) faces in his sight, was released in early April 1946.

" He wrote of Levant's directorial failure as he " offers no ... sense of comic timing ," while " pauses in the midst of much of the dialogue are downright painful.

In November 2010, Lucas made his directorial debut at The Factory Digital Filmmaking School of the Douglas Education Center in Monessen, PA with a promotional trailer and dialogue scene for a proposed feature film adaptation of his novel Throat Sprockets, executive produced by Robert Tinnell.

He paid close attention to the types of films people liked to rent and has cited that experience as inspiration for his directorial career.

As a result, when the time came to make his solo directorial debut with The Colossus of Rhodes ( Il Colosso di Rodi, 1961 ), Leone was well-equipped to produce low-budget films which looked like larger budget Hollywood movies.

Peter Bogdanovich was a 31-year-old stage actor, film essayist and critic with two small films — Targets ( 1968 ) ( also known as Before I Die ) and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women ( 1968 ) — to his directorial credit.

While Rosenzweig accepts that almost every film involves such moral dilemmas to some extent, it is Curtiz's directorial decisions which place the element center stage in his films, albeit at an emotional rather than an intellectual level.

He began acting in films, and made his directorial debut with Reality Bites.

The film is writer Shanley's directorial debut and the first of three films pairing Hanks and Ryan.

He was offered a directorial position by Leon Schlesinger in 1937, but declined until 1944, when Frank Tashlin left Warner Bros. to direct live-action films.

Farrell had small parts in television shows and films, including the BBC's Ballykissangel in 1998 and 1999, and his film debut in English actor Tim Roth's directorial debut The War Zone.

One of the first films about a fan being disturbingly obsessed with their idol was Clint Eastwood's directorial debut film, Play Misty for Me ( 1971 ), about a California disc jockey pursued by a disturbed female listener ( Jessica Walter ).

His film directorial debut was The Incredible Shrinking Woman in 1981, which starred Lily Tomlin, and he quickly made more successful films, including two " brat pack " works.

Zombie's directorial debut, the film is heavily inspired by the horror and exploitation cinema of the 1970s, in the fashion of films such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) and The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ).

Shore continued to score numerous films from 1995 – 2001, including two David Fincher films, Seven ( 1995 ) The Game ( 1997 ) and The Truth About Cats and Dogs ( 1996 ); also, he collaborated on two films with Cronenberg along with Tom Hanks ' directorial debut, That Thing You Do !.

Austin was in several films, including Annie Hall and The Happy Ending, and some regional movies and industrial films, and he played the bridgemaster in Stephen King's directorial debut, Maximum Overdrive, where he introduced the phrase, " Can't you see we've got a situation here ?!".

He entered the world of Malayalam films by writing the screenplay for Bharathan's directorial debut Prayaanam ( 1975 ) to take first steps to be one of the most talented script writers to have graced Malayalam cinema.

Kazanjian moved into film production rather than directorial work at Hitchcock's suggestion and is most notable for having served as executive producer on Raiders of the Lost Ark and producer on Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, two of the biggest films of all time.

2005 saw Watson starring in four films: Wah-Wah, Richard E. Grant's autobiographical directorial debut ; Separate Lies, directed by Gosford Park writer Julian Fellowes ; Tim Burton's animated film Corpse Bride, alongside Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter ; and John Hillcoat's Australian-set " western ", The Proposition.

Modine made his feature directorial debut with If ... Dog ... Rabbit, which came after the success of three short films debuting at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival: When I Was a Boy ( co-directed with Todd Field ), Smoking written by David Sedaris, and Ecce Pirate written by Modine.

In 1952, Nomura was promoted to director and made his directorial debut in 1953 with the film, which was such a success that the studio gave him five more films to direct the following year.

After retiring as a director, Honda returned more than 30 years later to work again for his old friend and former mentor Akira Kurosawa as a directorial advisor, production coordinator and creative consultant on his last five films.