I think they want precisely to be "particularly provocative".
The crucial difference is that with Hamlet I felt it was important to be provocative because the play is so famous it is inert.
Each director focuses on provocative action and drama in their films, but, more specifically, they show men can be positively sexually objectified through a female lens.
"Nobody knows what it means," replies Chazz, "but it's provocative, gets the people going".
Asked about his daughter's insistence that he had been deliberately provocative in recent weeks, he described it as a lie and a plot to establish a new regime at the top of the party.
Naturally, Steingarten found all this irresistibly provocative, and he resolved to cook a bird à la Thompson.
Cohen met with Castro at the BBC's Broadcasting House headquarters in central London at the beginning of last week to discuss the ambassador's request for a public apology over Clarkson's "provocative behaviour" and "offensive remarks".
In an interview with RIA Novosti, he said Azerbaijan had shown a pattern of provocative behaviour to try and get the international community to devote more attention to the conflict.
It's a very provocative, swirling, dark piece of music that really sets up the whole show.
At the same time they posed big, provocative, uncomfortable questions; ones which two thousand years later, we still struggle to answer".
Kapoor described the evening as "provocative rather than propaganda".
