Being a director when you aren’t in real life can represent: taking more personal control over your own life or a certain aspect of it (or a desire to do so), a desire to be a leader (perhaps in a way that involves creative and visionary thinking), a desire to feel more “in charge” or powerful, feeling less than powerful somehow in your life.
See also: Authority Figure, Manager, Leader, Show or Movie, Stage or Screen, Celebrity, Theater, Audience, TV [1]
To resign or lose a directorship in your dream suggests a possible loss of status through your own foolish actions.
Whatever your secret indiscretions may be you’d best consider the consequences of exposure and cool it for the time being. [2]
See also: Government. [4]