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Who are your favorite directors? Which ones inspire you?

Here's a few on my list in no particular order.

I believe these directors pushed the boundries of film and inspired us to do something more, at least that's what they are to me.

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Akira Kurosawa
4. Francois Truffaut
5. Jean Luc Goddard
6. Martin Scorsese
7. Elea Kazan
8. Yasujiro Ozu
9. Robert Altman
10. David Lynch
11. David Lean
12. Robert Powell
 
I'll quote myself from this thread... http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=2191&highlight=directors+inspired
CallaghanFilms said:
#3. Frank Capra for giving heart to the medium of cinema

#2. Alfred Hitchcock for correcting its near-sightedness

and
#1. Steven Spielberg for understanding it's dreams & realizing its potential to the fullest
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...and again from this one... http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=38078&highlight=directors+inspired
CallaghanFilms said:
I already had them posted, so I just transfered the lot of them...
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My favorite directors:

Alfred Hitchcock
M. Night Shyamalan
Darren Aronofsky

Those three are people I really admire.

Rest:

David Fincher
James Cameron
Sam Mendes
Frank Darabont
Robert Zemeckis

Yes, spielberg isn't on my list, you didn't skip him =)
 
my favorite filmmakers would have to be the ones whose films i watch and re-watch more often than the others. that being the criteria, i've listed them alphabetically.

Michaelangelo Antonioni
Ingmar Bergman
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
David Gordon Green
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Lukas Moodysson
Eric Rohmer
Andrei Tarkovsky
Bela Tarr
Wim Wenders
Wong Kar Wai
 
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Peter Jackson
Sam Raimi
James Camera
George A. Romero
Stuart Gordon
Kevin Smith (not for his style, but for his movies)
Lloyd Kaufman (for his over the top stupidity)
 
My favorite directors in no certain order:

Alfred Hitchcock
Alex Proyas
F.W. Murnau
John Carpenter
James Cameron
Tim Burton
Francis Ford Coppola
George Lucas (yeah, go to hell :))
Quentin Tarantino
Steven Spielberg
Neil Jordan
Robert Rodrigeuz
Orson Welles
Mel Brooks
 
There can be no order to this.
Terry Gilliam
Ryuhei Kitamura
Joel Coen (anything before Intolerable Cruelty)
Kubrick
Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch)
Clint Eastwood (for his style and people management)
Hitchcock
Kurosawa
Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet as a team and I also like Jeunet on his own.
Danny Boyle
Guy Richie (for Lock, Stock... and Snatch)
 
1) Steven Spielberg
2) Alfred Hitchcock
3) Martin Scorsese

The Rest (in no particular order):

John Ford
John Huston
Frank Capra
Orson Welles
Clint Eastwood
Ron Howard
Quentin Tarantino
Brian DePalma
Kevin Smith
John Ford
John Huston
Francis Ford Coppola
 
Mine is many of the usual suspects, of course: Hawks, Ford, Hitch, up to the Coens.

Though he does not have a really long track record, I really like Sean Penn, if for no other reason than he got Nicholson to actually act again.

But my current favorite director I haven't seen in any other list, so I'll throw him in:

Pedro Almadovar
 
Not one person listed DePalma ? (Blasphemy)

In order

01. Steven Spielberg
02. Quentin Tarantino
03. Martin Scorsese
04. Brian DePalma
05. John Carpenter
06. Terrrence Malick
07. Francis Ford Coppola
08. M. Night Shyamalan
09. Oliver Stone
10. Kevin Costner
 
Okay, here are mine in order:

01 Steven Spielberg
02 James Cameron
03 Martin Scorsese
04 Ridley Scott
05 Alfred Hitchcock
06 Quentin Tarantino * the jury is temporarily out here... waiting for something like his first three.
07 Clint Eastwood
08 John Huston
09 Francis Ford Coppola
10 M. Night Shyamalan
11 John McTiernan
12 Brian DePalma
13 Michael Mann
14 Mel Gibson
15 Tony Scott

Honorable mention goes out to John Milius for making my favorite movie of all time: The Wind and the Lion

Okay, two more honorable mentions: Sergio Leone and The Coen Brothers
 
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Great list Blaine. I suppose if I added 5 more I'd have chosen at least:
02 James Cameron
11 John McTiernan
13 Michael Mann
14 Mel Gibson
 
Wow... Well I am not going to put them in any order, because a lot will just depend on my mood and what I'm feeling that night. Regarding what I could learn from them, there are different things I take from each director, so my list:

01. Steven Spielberg (The man is a legend above all others, he takes you away)
02. Quentin Tarantino (The best writer / director working today)
03. Martin Scorsese (Italian American Culture on the big screen)
04. Alfred Hitchcock (Who can dispute?)
05. John Carpenter (Horror master who has gone downhill lately, but legend)
06. Woody Allen (Hardest working director in Hollywood, no argument needed)
07. Francis Ford Coppola (The man is a composer and Apocolypse is his opus)
08. Oliver Stone (Cultural, Shocking, Historical, and intoxicating)
09. Rob Zombie (The most potential of any director I've seen in 10 years)
10. David Fincher (great scripts, great efx, great acting, but the buck starts here)
11. Sam Raimi (His early stuff inspired me, his newer $ stuff proves he's got skills)
12. Rob Reiner (I'm sentimental to the guy, think that he puts out a quality film)
13. James Cameron (The man does a movie every ten years, and they're all gold)
14. George Lucas (because I'm a f*cking fanboy)
15. Greg Araki (Indie and jagged as hell, and not afraid to hold punches)
16. Darren Aronofsky (Pi was a brilliant debut, Requiem solidified him as legit)
17. David Mamet (no one directs Mamet scripts like David Mamet, wonder why?)
18. M. Night Shyamalan (the second best writer / director working today)
19. Clint Eastwood (minimalistic style is beautiful)
20. Robert Redford (A River Runs through it takes the prize)
21. Orson Welles (We know Kane was great, big deal... Touch of Evil, nuff said!)
22. Mimi Leder (Exploitive as anything, textbook, unoriginal, but yet effective)
23. Sam Mendes (Either he is w/ the best or he has talent... I'll take the latter)
24. Barry Levinson (He is original, touching, and inspiring in all his work)
25. Kevin Costner (Arrogant, yes, but talented and motivating? Yes!)
26. Mel Gibson (He's lost me lately because of politics, but Braveheart made me a fan for life)

-Jeremy
 
I don't know how ya'll were able to cut down to just ten... I have 26 and that took leaving people off who I think deserve to be there. Ultimately I listed the people who when they put out a film I will see it because of who directed it (or if they're dead, I have seen their stuff because it is their stuff)

-Jeremy
 
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