In this artisanal format, a producer depends on the director to develop a distinctive way of handling scenes.
Our enemies are bound for disappointment.... To meet our new threats, I have directed my national security advisor and my homeland security director to develop a comprehensive strategy on proliferation.
In a congratulatory memorandum, President Clinton directed Housing Secretary Andrew M. Cuomo and Jack Lew, the White House budget director, to develop a proposal for the newly available money and report back in 160 days.
As president, Mr. Levin has tried to "routinize a close connection" with the city by urging new deans and directors to develop programs with an outreach component, for example, and uniting downtown merchants behind a voluntary added tax.
Producers have also become less willing to help create by working with writers, composers and directors to develop material.
This sartorial confusion is perhaps a result of the failure of the director, Scott Elliott, to develop a consistent point of view.
Fidel has been credited with inspiring the Brisbane festival's new artistic director, David Berthold, to develop a strong African theme for his inaugural program, including a number of projects from Congo.
In March, Miramax said that it was partnering with production company GK Films and director Martin Scorsese to develop a television version of Scorsese's 2002 film "Gangs of New York".
An outbreak of meningitis in the winter of 1904-05 led the institute's first director, Dr. Simon Flexner, to develop a serum to fight the disease.
After Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the director had wished to develop a story about a stranded alien, a project originally entitled Night Skies, and to bring in his own experience of his parents' divorce.
