This polarity perhaps explains the variety of directors she worked for - among them Peter Brook, Yuri Lyubimov, Terry Hands, Mike Alfreds and Michael Grandage - as well as the very different directors for whom she was a particular favourite, John Dexter, Bill Gaskill, Jonathan Miller, Max Stafford-Clark and Howard Davies.
"They're a very different group," said Dr. Adam B. Stein, director of the paralysis rehabilitation program at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Matters took a very different turn when Trevor Nunn became director of the NT in October 1997.
"This gift is going to make us a very different museum," said Matthew Teitelbaum, its director.
"Anyone can speculate, but there are a set of facts that tell a very different story," said Howard Wolfson, communications director for the Clinton campaign.
"It is clear that the elites have one agenda, most clearly on trade, and the rest of the population has a very different agenda," said Dean Baker, co-director of the progressive Center for Economic and Policy Research and a critic of recent trade agreements.
Had it gone 2-2 at half-time, it would have been a very different match," said Mr Holzer, managing director of Cairos.
Being a director is therefore a very different role, legally and psychologically, from being a senior executive.
Following on from his hard-hitting crime drama A Prophet, director Jacques Audiard tackles a very different subject matter while applying his usual method of eradicating every trace of cliche.
