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Favorite Director?

My favorite director is Alan Smithee. I'll watch pretty much anything Smithee directs.
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Sidewinder · 36-40, M
Some of my favorite directors (and some of the films they were known for)

Cecil B. DeMille.
- Ben Hur (1925)
-The King of Kings (1927)
-The Ten Commandments (1956)


Fritz Lang
-Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
-Metropolis (1927)

Akira Kurosawa
-Seven Samurai (1954)
-Yojinbo (1961)

Alfred Hitchcock
-Vertigo (1958)
-North By Northwest (1959)
-Family Plot (1976)

Stanley Kubrick.
-2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
-The Shining (1980)
-Full Metal Jacket (1987)

James Cameron.
-Titanic (1997)
-Avatar (2009)

George Lucas.
-Star Wars (1977)
-Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Joe Dante.
-Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
-Gremlins (1984)

George Miller.
-Mad Max (1979)
-Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

Quentin Tarantino.
-Pulp Fiction (1994)

Steven Speilberg.
-Duel (1971)
-Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
-E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
-Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
-Empire of the Sun (1987)

John Carpenter.
-Halloween (1978)
-The Thing (1982)

Alan Parker.
-Fame (1980)
-Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)

Robert Zemeckis
-Back To The Future (1985)
-Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

And also a little fun fact: Alan Smithee isn't a real person. It's just a name that directors use when they, for whatever reason, don't wish to have their name in the credits.

Additionally, the name Alan Smithee is an anagram for "The Alias men."