31.   This, his directorial debut, which he also wrote, is amoral and witless, lacking a single character we can sympathize with or at least understand.

32.   Though critics had reservations about the film, they considered it an auspicious directorial debut.

33.   Thompson, a leading French screenwriter making an extraordinarily accomplished directorial debut, is less misanthropic than Allen.

34.   This is the directorial debut of Jesse Peretz.

35.   Washington will make his directorial debut with the movie.

36.   Yee made his directorial debut with The Lunatics, about a patient discharged from Castle Peak Hospital who goes berserk in a marketplace, killing several people.

37.   PANAS marks the directorial debut of Nurhalim Ismail, better known for his television dramas.

38.   Cher makes her directorial debut with the third segment, in which she plays a dedicated gynecologist who performs abortions at a clinic besieged by anti-abortion protesters.

39.   Costner has won an Oscar for his directorial debut in Dances with Wolves.

40.   Edwards will also direct the stage version, his Broadway directorial debut.