Example sentences for: writer-director

How can you use “writer-director” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Based on Orson Welles' 58 page memo detailing his objections to the studio's cut of his much-tinkered-with 1958 noir classic, this re-edited version "unspools with all the complex, unnerving menace and nihilistic subtext its writer-director had in mind all along" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics take the occasion to rethink the movie itself: "A jammed, discordant, discomforting experience--a nightmare, in fact, but a nightmare that leaves in the wake of many complications a moral significance of disturbing perversity and brilliance" (Denby).

  • Instead, Madame Secretary proves to be down with the Zeitgeist, providing the latest evidence of the plummeting public image of the film's writer-director, Jim Cameron.

  • The leads, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles, are "scrubbed, wholesome and bland," while the writer-director Kris Isacsson "flees from anything that might involve real human emotion, or for that matter any credible human activity other than looking good" (A.O.

  • What holds it all together is the writer-director's fervid conviction.

  • Although it pitches itself as an hommage to films such as Heathers , Carrie , and Clueless , critics say writer-director Darren Stein "can't decide whether he's satirizing his demon heroines' homicidal indifference or celebrating it" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The film has only two things worth looking at: the eye-popping costumes and Rose McGowan, who has the part of the bitch-goddess down pat.


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