1.  A meeting with Redford went well because this star was also a successful director.

2.  A successful director can deal with five details at once, then five more, then five more, without becoming someone everyone despises.

3.  Directed and co-written by Claude Zidi, it is produced by Claude Berri, long a successful director and now a mini-mogul of the French movie scene.

4.  Even the commercially successful director Ron Howard has felt the pressure.

5.  Hitchcock was the most successful director to consistently have such an effect on audiences.

6.  In a city that takes theater very seriously, Kama Ginkas was arguably the most successful director of the season that just ended.

7.  Like most successful TV action directors, Bleckner knows that if you keep the noise level high enough it drowns out thought.

8.  Lois Weber, a successful director, ran her own production company.

9.  Successful directors of studio films usually do not go the independent route, but Shelton said he felt he had little choice.

10.  The son of the author of the Soviet anthem and brother of Hollywood director Andrei Konchalovsky, Mikhalkov was a successful director in Soviet times.