The thirty best directors, opinions opinions opinions...

Now, this is a man with near boundless talent, a directors director, with a low budget at twenty six years old, he produced, wrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane. However, I feel like instead of adapt to a changing environment he had problems putting his vision to film and eventually gave up on it. And I feel in the past artists that worked by commission were strong because they were versatile enough to project their talent through what they were told to paint.

This is a director whose vision is boundless, in my opinion 2001 a Space Odyssey is one of the most important works of all time, it's really more or less an updated view of creationism. Not only that but he carries a certain perfectionism with his work that is rare to be seen. Each film unique and remarkable.

In my opinion the most versatile director of all time, he has done everything with film, comedy, drama, large or small budget, he shows us a darker side with films like Sunset Blvd, and then can turn around and make us laugh with Some Like It Hot, I can't think of anyone else with that type of versatility.

This is a man who has defined film for years and years, while mostly working with the thriller genre his movies speak for themselves as being a key name in suspense.

This is a very versatile director who is constantly changing the way films are directed by everyone else around him, he takes chances and seems to not only carry his own type of trade mark but change technique film to film.

This man is an artist in his own right, he has a use of lighting and dark side that constantly goes where films had never gone before, as early as the 1950's the man questioned religion, the devil, sanity, unlike no one else before him.

Another artist, one of few directors that using images and dreams of his own life really added realism to surrealism. I don't think anyone should be allowed to direct a film without watching 8 1/2.

Also a pioneer for film, Charlie Chaplin is a legend making people laugh for generations, inspiring countless film makers for the future. A man who in life was a beautiful and caring person and really was the first to allow a look at Adolf Hitler with eyes that pierced the veil of fear he cast over the world and gave everyone hope for a better future where we could all live in peace and try and love one another.

Here is a pioneer in film unlike any before him. Constantly being degraded for racism he is a film legend whose imperfections keep him from being fully respected by the film community, I'm guilty of this myself, but to deny the man as a pioneer is an insult.

A very versatile film maker who has proven himself able to make many different types of film, romance, biopic, war story, epic. He can do it all.

Only a fool could deny the powerful skill with the camera John Ford possessed, constantly filming at low budget and making pictures that today are praised for their beauty.

A great cinematographer who can take your breath away every frame. He works well with his actors and the scores he used by Morricone are in my opinion the best collaborations between a director and composer of all time, rivaled distantly by John Williams and George Lucas.

A very innovative directer with incredible ability to work with his actors, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest's stars claim that they were in their own little world acting in character for hours, and foreman taking the better parts for the film. And actually making Louise Fletcher feel so isolated and villainous that while filming she claimed that she actually stripped down and paraded herself in front of everyone on set because she really felt like no one was looking at her as a woman and instead the cold mechanical character she was playing.

A great director all around, setting up film techniques to be used for years to come, looked to as a legend, by the film community his epic films of old Japan and future films of different settings really set him apart from other film makers.

The best quote I can find to describe his work is one by Roger Ebert who said that his films were the curious delights Tarantino's films have become today. Personally Breathless, left me just that, visually impressive and a budget I simply could not believe.

A very innovative film maker whose dark side added a rare edge to his films that was rare to be seen any where else. The Kangaroo court scene in M was daunting and the confession of the killer was heartbreaking to watch.

A director in rare form, starting as an actor like many good directors, he's been making film after film of pure gold at the current point in his career he's a force to be reckoned with both as an actor and a director.

A new comer to the film industry in recent years his sheen of perfectionism reminds me of the film resume of a young Stanley Kubrick, I hope to see a lot more of his interesting, thought provoking, and fast moving pictures.

In my opinion one of the best rising directors of our generation, unlike many of today's film makers Aronofsky feels like a real old school type artist like Fellini, and Bergman and to me his films some how remind me a bit of those of Orson Welles.

As I could not add the brothers as a pair, I added the first one whose name I remembered, keep in mind this is my opinion of them as a pair. I feel their work is strong enough to stand the test of time, and I feel that their use of color as it pertains to landscape is something to be remarked upon, from the infinite rolling whiteout of Fargo to the rich and earthy greens and browns of the rural south in Oh Brother Where Art Though and the pure heavenly scenery which contrasts so beautifully to the gritty nature of the film in No Country for Old Men.

Thought of as a living legend in the industry it's in rare form that you see anything forgettable about Spielberg's work, old or new he never loses the ability to amaze. However, I feel like as of late his name has become very commercialized and I feel while he has directed some of the best films of all time I feel that his over all career lacks the perfectionism of other directors. And I think his work as a producer isn't as helpful as it could be to the art of film itself, it seems like big budget money makers are the only thing that commands his attention.

While I feel as though his fame of recent years has been of his pending lawsuit for statutory rape over thirty years ago I feel more attention should be paid to the beauty of Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown, two films which are in my opinion flawless.

This is a film maker who is relatively new to the game but in the past twenty years has delivered us some of the most well directed films we've ever seen. I love that his views of film are completely unconventional and that few have a real grasp and understanding of his references considering that most of them are from films that critics would cry watching. Although I feel like he has a unique look at film his attitude as sort of an independent will keep him out of the scope of the Academy (which robbed Inglorious Basterds) but it'll be no surprise when in the future he'll be remembered. He ranks a little low on my list because I feel like his subtle immaturities are a bit of a shortcoming but I think a serious attitude might ruin him.

Also another film maker well renowned in our generation, really going his own with films like Fight Club and Zodiac, he has a way of really capturing the feel of a scene and capturing a dramatic and dark atmosphere in his work.

A fairly unknown director compared with some and I feel his films are highly underrated in America and it shames me to think anyone would be shallow enough to miss out on an artist whose equal is rarely seen to avoid reading a few subtitles.

A very well rounded film maker capable of doing almost any form of film and working with many different types of actors and always being able to create an interesting film with a career spanning several decades he is a very talented man who I feel more recently has give to making movies like a man in a batting cage one after another but each in it's own way watchable but lacking the true grit that makes them standout.

A man I'm probably not familiar enough with, whose films have a dry quick bit of wit and humor. His films cast with Bogart and Bacall are a must see, and at some points you can actually get a little feel for the tension between the three.

Responsible for three of the best films I've ever seen. The Godfather 1,2 and Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation which I've yet to see, you'd think he would rank higher but looking at his entire career he's given up the things that early on set him apart from everyone else, he's lost all his daring and in that I've lost all respect for the man. Seemingly arrogant and opinionated (like myself) he's lost the gift he had and began producing crap like Jeepers Creepers and at the time abandoning his vision of Apocalypse Now to release it when his financial security was on the safer side. I'm disappointed in him in the same way I was disappointed in the mall santa drunk and puking in parking lot.

This is a film maker who has done some very good work in his time. His films are always respectable and however I think sometimes he's fishing for Oscar nominations but of course that makes it hard for him to churn out a big budget Micheal Bay shit storm.

Now this is another director I have to apologize for being less than familiar with, however on the strength of There Will Be Blood alone I'm obligated to put him on this list. Another diamond in the rough, I feel like There Will Be Blood was a rarely seen work of art on the same par with the best films in history, well acted, well shot, and well received I believe it will go down in film history.