Now, you all know (or at least I hope you know) that my favorite is Tim Burton. How about you guys, though. I’m sure there are plently of Steven Spielberg fans on here as well. So, who is your favorite film director?
Besides Tim, I also enjoy Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis.
My favorite production director is… drumroll … Steven Spielberg! Although my favorite feature film, to date, is Ratatouille, I have always loved Mr. Spielberg’s work and attention to detail. The way he manipulates his films is quite charming to me, almost as if he’s a big kid who loves directing on-going, cinematic adventures for audiences to plunge into. (Pixar accomplishes this feat as well, of course, but in a fairly different fashion.)
Besides the afore-mentioned director, I also enjoy the works conjured up by Brad Bird. However, it’s ultimately Steven Spielberg who takes the cake on my list.
Nice question, Bill! 
– Mitch
My favorite director would have to be Jim Henson - I love his work on fantasy films, not just the muppets. 
I also like Frank Coraci’s work on the Wedding Singer and Around the World in 80 Days.
And Terry Gilliam- even though most of his movies are flops, I do enjoy his style.
As a novelist I feel I must get to know some directors, just so I have some insight if my books ever make it to film. (Yes I’m thinking big, shut up. )
Gore Verbinski: He directed one of my all time favorite action/adventure movie of all time, Pirates of the Carribean.
Brad Bird: He directed my the movie that had a great impact on my life, The Incredibles.
Mr. Spielberg: Really creative director. You know you are going to get a treat everytime you watch one of his films.
Geez, I like a lot of people. Their all so special in their own way, I don’t think I could decide.
The Coen brothers. They’ve done so many good films- O Brother, Where Art Thou, Fargo, Miller’s Crossing, The Big Lebowski- and even though all of their films are very different, you can just tell it’s a Coen brothers film from the first few minutes.
I also quite like Quentin Tarantino. He’s a very, very strange man but he certainly knows how to make an impact in film! Resevoir Dogs has to be his best.
This would be such an obvious question to ask if you knew me well, but my all-time favorite is definitely Tim Burton. He’s just amazing. I actually did a speech on him in class a few weeks ago for a project.
I’m also starting to like Brad Bird quite a bit 
My favorite film directors are: George lucas, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, and Alex Kendrick. Alex Kendrick Directed, wrote, and starred in the movies:Facing the Giants and Flywheel.
Could you list a couple of your favorites?
The Star Swordsman - Eh, the usual. Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Brad Bird, John Lasseter, etc, etc. But I’m also a fan of Ash Brannon - a co-director of Toy Story 2 (my fav PIxar film) and director the recently released Surf’s Up.
Also, anybody here like M Night? Just in time for Halloween… 
I’ve only seen Fargo and The Big Lebowski (guess why? xD) and I plan to see Resevoir Dogs whenever possible for the same reason.
FONY- You must see it! I never understood why people kept saying it was one of the best films ever, but after you watch it, you realise why.
Oh man, how could I have forgotten Alfred Hitchcock?! I’ll have to add him to my list, as well…
– Mitch
I never heard of Hitchcock until two years ago. It was part of research for my acting character, and my director and I watched a lot of Hitchcock movies.
I have always been a fan of John Woo, the Wachowski Brothers, Quentin Tarantino and Tim Burton.
aZnCDn: oh Tarintino really is a genious.
Robert Zemeckis is my second favorite director. He’s done a lot of great work. His next film is A Christmas Carol , which I’m really looking forward to.
Alfred Hitchcock is the master of filmmaking. PERIOD. From his early work to his very last film… it’s like one long story/journey. And the very last few seconds of his final film… just wow. It was like he knew it would be his last.
There are other great ones as well though…
-Michelangelo Antonioni → Blow-Up… ugh… absolutely amazing. I need to watch more of his stuff.
-Sergei Eisenstein → The greatest Russian filmmaker… very interesting theories. Anybody inspiring to become a film director or composer MUST see Alexander Nevsky, his first sound film.
-Roman Polanski → Very interesting director, but I also like his funny works… like The Fearless Vampire Killers… one of my favourite films!!
Tim Burton… Steven Spielberg… yeh, they’re all good I suppose, but I’m not very interested in mainstream directors like those two… they’re popular enough. I like looking at directors who are not very well known and have remarkable talent. Well, I DO like Quentin Tarantino and Stanley Kubrick, hehe.
I am a very big Star Wars fan, as some of you may know. Thus, you might think that my favourite director is George Lucas. However, even though I very much admire Mr. Lucas’ directing style (he did make what I think are the six best movies of all time, after all), my favourite would have to be Steven Spielberg. Of all the movies that Mr. Spielberg has made, three of them, in my humble opinion, were masterpieces (Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Munich), and several of them are just plain brilliant.
In fact, the only Spielberg film that I did not like was War of the Worlds. I just didn’t find it very compelling and (pardon me if I would sound a bit sarcastic) the movie could have easily been called “Dakota Fanning’s Scream”. There might be other reasons, but those are certainly some of the main ones.
I remember saying in the “Movies - both new and old” thread that I haven’t seen a single Hitchcock film. Well, it’s been about a year, and I still haven’t gotten around to seeing any of his films. Actually, I watched the first quarter or so of North by Northwest (I borrowed the DVD from my local public library), but I had to stop watching because my family had to go somewhere on that day - unfortunately, the DVD also had to be returned on the same day for reasons I don’t exactly remember (I think it had to do with our imminent trip to the Philippines).
Anyway, from what I’ve seen, North by Northwest seems to be really intriguing. The moment I get back home to British Columbia (I’m in Ontario right now), I’ll be sure to borrow that DVD again. I might as well borrow Rear Window too, since the library also has it (albeit in VHS format)