Who is your fave movie director and why?

Ahhh a question after my own heart :) There is no absolute favorite, but i like to idealize any number of them at any given moment, out of rapturous esteem, the one i like to single out most these days is Werner Schroeter, he was on the margins of the New German Cinema, eclipsed by others like Herzog and Fassbinder, i LOVE Fassbinder too, he told a story much better than Schroeter could, what i love about Schroeter is the early films of his Eika Katappa, Death of Maria Malibran and Der Bomberpilot as the 3 best which put on a feature length format the kind of film art usually only in the short film format ie: Kenneth Anger. The use of opera too, but also the whole purposive mish mashing of styles, namely high art and low art. The low can be seen in the intentional sloppiness, out of synch singing and speaking, off tune singing .... later in his career he turned more to narrative storytelling, which i do not like that much, but it might grow on me later, but the later period does include Malina, an exhausting complex emotional roller coaster ride. i am in awe of that film, a film that can CHANGE a person:)