"I also liked the concept of having different directors, because it allowed us to bring a different taste to each of the episodes, even though they were all tied together in this single, overarching story," Mr. Eisner said.
We had different directors – Jonathan Demme or Todd Haynes [among them] -- and you'd see the same sets from someone else's eye, and it would suddenly have a whole different feel.
And different directors have different obsessions.
This guarded irreverence, declaring the collapse of the status quo, runs through each of the adaptations of Mr. Ellis's books, "Less Than Zero," "American Psycho," "The Rules of Attraction" and "The Informers" — a series of films that, though they have different screenwriters and directors, form a genre unto themselves.
Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the Hermitage, said during a recent visit to the United States, "We are different museums with different directors who have different approaches".
"Different people have different sensitivities," said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy for the clearinghouse.
Now, she says, more companies are embracing directors who have different backgrounds — general counsels with regulatory experience, chief financial officers who know M&A, marketing mavens who can help with brand strategy — far more of whom are women.
Medical directors did not have different concerns in this issue as compared to those who were not medical directors (p = 0.38).
The programme has had eight different directors since 2003, the NAO said, but conceded that changes to leadership since 2014 gave "some cause for optimism".
Administration officials say their law enforcement efforts are stymied by the overall tumult, noting that since Mr. Portillo took office, he has had nine different directors of the government's antidrug unit.
