Director Quotes and aphorisms about provocative Sam Esmail Yance Ford ,, It would have been tough for anyone to adapt 'Push' - an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire - ... Yorgos Lanthimos ,, Provocative... I used to be defensive about it, but in the end, I realised it's exactly right. It's... John McTiernan Melina Matsoukas Joshua Michael Stern ,, Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it... Kathryn Bigelow Marianne Elliott