In one anecdote his arrival at a chemical plant is described in which he was denied access by the director because he would not allow anyone to see the production procedure which was a trade secret.

David Pleasance, managing director of Commodore UK, described the A600 as a ' complete and utter screw-up '.

The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as " the most important director of this era ".

The Cannes Film Festival Ecumenical Jury, which gives prizes for movies that promote spiritual, humanist and universal values, also " honoured " the film with a special " anti-award "; a spokesman for the jury described it as " the most misogynist movie from the self-proclaimed biggest director in the world.

Osama bin Laden and 15 out of the 19 9 / 11 hijackers were Saudi nationals and former CIA director James Woolsey described Saudi Arabian Wahhabism as " the soil in which Al-Qaeda and its sister terrorist organizations are flourishing.

Indeed, Jesse Lasky Jr., the co-writer on The Ten Commandments, described how the director would customarily spread out prints of Alma-Tadema paintings to indicate to his set designers the look he wanted to achieve.

John H. Nuckolls, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1988 to 1994, described the system as “ The crowning achievement of the Strategic Defense Initiative ”.

British film critic Peter Lloyd, for example, described Edwards, in 1971, as " the finest director working in the American commercial cinema at the present time.

Burzum is considered one of the most influential acts in black metal ; in Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, director Sam Dunn described Vikernes as " the most notorious metal musician of all time ".

Heidegger's family could not afford to send him to university, so he entered a Jesuit seminary, though he was turned away within weeks because of the health requirement and what the director and doctor of the seminary described as a psychosomatic heart condition.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory director Harold Brown and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev both described the neutron bomb as a " capitalist bomb ", because it was designed to destroy people while preserving property.

Elia Kazan (; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003 ) was an American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as " one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history ".

The UN's World Food Program ( WFP ), the biggest non-governmental distributor of food, announced that it will begin distributing cash and vouchers instead of food in some areas, which Josette Sheeran, the WFP's executive director, described as a " revolution " in food aid.

Steve Osborn, director of the Safe Neighbourhoods Unit, described the decision as " staggering " given the background of a substantial reduction in youth services by councils across the country, a matter over which, however, neither the College nor the UK Sports Council, had any control.

In the 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the character of Tony, played by Heath Ledger, is found hanging ( alive ) under Blackfriars Bridge, described by director Terry Gilliam as " an homage to Roberto Calvi ".

In 1985, the director claimed Cohn, whom he described as the " Jewish producer ," trimmed the film simply so theaters could have more daily showings and increase the film's chance of turning a profit.

Pfeiffer then appeared as chic restauranteuse Jo Ann Vallenari in Tequila Sunrise ( 1988 ) opposite Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell, but experienced creative and personal differences with director Robert Towne, who later described her as the " most difficult " actress he has ever worked with.

The basic shape of Homer's head is described by director Mark Kirkland as a tube-shaped coffee can with a salad bowl on top.

As director Akira Kurosawa later described, the benshi " not only recounted the plot of the films, they enhanced the emotional content by performing the voices and sound effects and providing evocative descriptions of events and images on the screen ....

" The magazine described the film as " one of director Wood's finest films ," and praised Robinson's screenplay, " even if he cut out a death from cancer, deleted a mercy killing, and toned down the narrative's homosexual angle.

In a 2002 All Things Considered radio interview with Kate Doyle, director of the Mexican Documentation Project for the US National Security Archive, she described the PRI government ’ s investigations: “ I mean, there have been a number of investigations throughout the years.

In 2005, BBC Four launched The Thick of It, described by director Armando Iannucci as " Yes Minister meets Larry Sanders ", and The Daily Telegraph called it " a Yes, Minister for the Labour years.

Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera described the film as an " absolute masterpiece " that had disappeared, and whose 1980 cutting was characterized as a " massacre " by nervous producers and had been " one of the greatest injustices of cinematic history " that had destroyed careers ( Cimino and Kristofferson ) following " annihilat " critical reviews.

Tadanori Tsukawaki, the design director of The Shake Dimension, described Wario as manly, and said he was " so uncool that he ends up being extremely cool ".

Everett Miller, then assistant director for the Garrick Gaieties, a Theatre Guild production, needed a lyricist for a song he had written ; ;

director of engineering at Philco of Great Britain, Ltd., and vice president in charge of production and assistant to the president at The Brush Development Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

Joseph Papp, impassioned founder of the festival and director of `` Much Ado '', had a vibrant, colorful production under way.

In the last of Kurosawa's films as an assistant director, Horse ( Uma, 1941 ), Kurosawa took over most of the production, as Yamamoto was occupied with the shooting of another film.

The production was directed by Randal K. West, with Justin Hill as musical director and Adam Cates as choreographer.

Also representative of his penchant for the spectacular was the 1952 production of The Greatest Show on Earth which gave DeMille an Oscar for best picture and a nomination for best director.

It featured a production team led by director Shinichirō Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer Kimitoshi Yamane and composer Yoko Kanno.

Often after the director has had his chance to oversee a cut, the subsequent cuts are supervised by one or more producers, who represent the production company and / or movie studio.

Vitagraph and Edison already had multiple production units, and so had no difficulty meeting their quota, but in 1908 Biograph lost their one working director.

The following year in 1927, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures In 1928, director Erich von Stroheim cast Wray as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March, released under Paramount, a film noted for its high budget and production values.

They can include graphic designer, art director, creative director, and the entry level production artist.

A production documentary of the film was titled, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, which exposed some of the major difficulties director Coppola faced in seeing the movie through to completion.

On 3 March 1969 Alexander Rhea, managing director of General Motors-Holden's at the time, was joined by press photographers and the Federal Minister of Shipping and Transport, Ian Sinclair as the two men drove the two millionth Holden, an HK Brougham off the production line.

" After the public's response to Bacall's debut performance in To Have and Have Not at the urging of director Howard Hawks production partner Charles K. Feldman, scenes were re-written to heighten the ' insolent ' quality that had intrigued critics and audiences in that film.

This Is Spinal Tap and other mockumentary films of director Christopher Guest are created with a mix of scripted and unscripted material and Blue in the Face is a 1995 comedy directed by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster created in part by the improvisations filmed during the production of their movie Smoke.

* 1920 – John Box, British film production designer and art director ( d. 2005 )

* 1978 – Pater Sparrow, Hungarian director / production designer

Whale gathered as many of those as he could who had been involved in one production or another of the musical, including Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, Charles Winninger, and, as Magnolia, Irene Dunne, who believed that Whale was the wrong director for the piece.

In 2006, Australian film director Peter Clifton proposed production of The Bloody Ashes, a film on the bodyline series.

Laurence Olivier played Malcolm in the 1929 production and Macbeth in 1937 at the Old Vic Theatre in a production that saw the Vic's artistic director Lilian Baylis pass away the night before it opened.

Peter O ' Toole and Frances Tomelty took the leads in a production ( by Bryan Forbes ) that was publicly disowned by Timothy West, artistic director of the theatre, before opening night, despite being a sellout because of its notoriety.