Possible Clues:

• Pride displayed by hot type of director
• Gallic arrogance is hard on Balzac, perhaps
• Disdain to be hard on influential director
• Superior attitude of hot film director
• Proud disdain
• Arrogance — Hutu era (anag)
• Arrogance of Mann shunning human nature perversely
• French arrogance of horrible leading director
• High-handedness
• Arrogance of hot film director