11.   Gore, whose supporters include such directors as Steven Spielberg, Sydney Pollack, and Rob Reiner, could have probably called on any filmmaker in Hollywood.

12.   He also taught such directors as Sidney Lumet, Sydney Pollack, and Vivian Matalon, and the playwright David Mamet.

13.   He believes in the invisible hand, the director as facilitator.

14.   He has worked steadily since, doing films with such admired directors as Robert Altman, Peter Greenaway, Stephen Frears and Quentin Tarantino.

15.   He also worked with such disparate directors as Francois Truffaut, Nicholas Ray, Joseph Mankiewicz and Brian De Palma.

16.   He said he expected many of his clients, who include such directors as Philip Noyce and Bruce Beresford, to join him.

17.   In fact, for its most recent expansion, it named a former museum director as the head of an art committee.

18.   Indeed, such directors as Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson have cited her writing as an inspiration for their becoming filmmakers.

19.   It saw the departure of its managing director as it withdrew from public finance.

20.   Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa has been lionized by such American directors as Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Robert Altman.