Joyce Chopra

Writing for the Sun-Sentinel, Candice Russell likened the film to Smooth Talk directed by Joyce Chopra and Joyce Chopra's Gotta Have Smooth Talk by filmmaker Spike Lee; all independent films that Joyce Chopra said were modifying the nature of the movie business.

Laura Dern

When Laura Dern made Smooth Talk when Isabella Rossellini was a teenager, Isabella Rossellini believed that Isabella Rossellini's character’s relationship with the sexual predator in Isabella Rossellini's film had been potentially consensual.

by Chopra’s husband Tom Cole

Deftly scripted by Chopra’s husband Tom Cole, Smooth Talk elaborates on the bones of Oates’s story for its first hour before its first hour's final sequence, a remarkable 30-minute dialogue — the entire third act of the film — between Dern and Williams, as the man with the convertible, Arnold Friend.

Peter Webber (director of Girl

With an audience that included Ratnam’s wife Suhasini (an accomplished actress in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada language films) and ace cinematographer Rajiv Menon (who was sat next to me with Ratnam's wife and Suhasini next to Suhasini ), the talk was guided by Peter Webber (director of Girl

Tom Hooper

The director is Tom Hooper, who also made The King's Speech.

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The director was Jeff Tremaine, creator and director of Jackass (starring Johnny Knoxville).

Rohan Sippy

Directed by Rohan Sippy, the film was lauded for the film's dialogues.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg

At the event, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg directed the talk where the prime minister fielded questions from the audience and a few of the 1.5 billion users of the social media website.

Roy J. Pomeroy

The sound version was directed by special effects technician-turned-director Roy J. Pomeroy, as the basis for Paramount Pictures' first feature-length all-talking motion picture.

Harry (Pico Alexander, A Most Violent Year)

Harry (Pico Alexander, A Most Violent Year) is the director, the smooth talker, and Home

Masahiro Sugano

The film is directed by award-winning director, Masahiro Sugano, a pioneer in spoken word films.

directed by Jan Pimblett of LMA's Interpretation Team

The talk, directed by Jan Pimblett of LMA's Interpretation Team, highlighted the importance of the material collected by PAT for family, local and social historians alike

George Cukor

Director George Cukor's film, his first with Greta Garbo, was also the first talking version of the content.