What are Your Top Ten Favorite Directors/Auteurs

[marsattacks666]

I thought this may be an interesting subject.

I'll start.....

Russ Meyer
Alfred Hitchcock
Tobe Hooper
Jesùs/Jess Franco
Dario Argento
Wes Craven
Doris Wishman
Al Adamson
John Carpenter
H. G. Lewis

[Mike Scott]

So, just genre directors? OK, here's mine. (No particular order.)

Hitchcock
John Carpenter
Tim Burton
Guillermo del Toro
Terry Gilliam
Joe Dante
Jack Arnold
Peter Jackson
Sam Raimi
Stanley Kubrick

[marsattacks666]

So, just genre directors? OK, here's mine. (No particular order.)

Hitchcock
John Carpenter
Tim Burton
Guillermo del Toro
Terry Gilliam
Joe Dante
Jack Arnold
Peter Jackson
Sam Raimi
Stanley Kubrick

Not specifically.  I just picked my favorites' , who happened to be genre Directors.

[Mike Scott]

I just picked my favorites' , who happened to be genre Directors.

I'll just leave mine as it is, but it would have been very different, with people like Orson Welles and Quentin Tarantino.

[geezer butler]

Ishirô Honda
James Whale
Alfred Hitchcock
George Romero
John Carpenter
Roger Corman
Terence Fisher
Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese
Brian DePalma   

*not necessarily in that order

[Mike Scott]

Ishirô Honda
James Whale

Oh, jeez! I forgot about Whale!

[marsattacks666]

Ishirô Honda
James Whale
Alfred Hitchcock
George Romero
John Carpenter
Roger Corman
Terence Fisher
Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese
Brian DePalma   

*not necessarily in that order

I forgot about Romero, DePalma and Scorsese. Terence Fisher, great director, too.