Your Favorite Film Director/s, and why...

Hello. I'm just really curious about people's favorite directors.

Mine are Tim Burton, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki.

Their movies are really good. They inspire me so much. Not only that, I like how Tim Burton makes something so bizarre it actually makes sense. James Cameron is a science fiction guy. He depicts time in such an awesome way that it somehow defies logic at times (Terminator, Avatar). Steven Spielberg brings the past back into the present, although sometimes he could become totally futuristic (Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones). Akira Kurosawa is such a genius. I enjoyed Seven Samurai so much . Hayao Miyazaki creates such a beautiful atmosphere and plot in his work that he pulls you into the story.

Michel Gondry and David Fincher.

I honestly don't pay much attention to directors, but a few I've taken note of are:

Michael Gondry - whimsical, imaginative, romantic
Richard Linklater - real, smart/clever, funny
Sofia Coppola - visually stunning, good soundtracks
Hitchcock - smart, stylish suspense, classic
Wes Anderson - quirky, colorful

Brian DePalma - I love his psychological thrillers
Francis Ford Coppola - backstory and subtext along with character development
David Mamet - cynical, streetwise dialogue and realistic human condition plotlines.
Clint Eastwood - minimalist dialogue and atmosphere
John Ford - classic strength and clear vision with deceptively simple characters.

Richard Kelly - Donnie Darko and Southland Tales were great. The Box was terrible.
Todd Solondz - Serious guy who makes the dreary and mundane hilarious. Happiness wins.
Jim Jarmusch - His aesthetic is fantastic. 'Dead Man' being my favourite.
Wes Anderson - Rushmore is one of my favourites.
Woody Allen - He's a legend. 'Love and Death' is my least unfavourite film.
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill
John Hughes - Responsible for the classic teen films of all time
Robert Altman - The Player and Short Cuts - Great alternative films
Hal Ashby - Great 70s films like Harold and Maude, Being There, Coming Home, The Last Detail
Stanley Kubrick - I don't think he made a single bad film - nearly perfect aesthetic
Mel Brooks - Blazing Saddles. Enough said.
Harold Ramis - Caddyshack, Back to School, Groundhog Day - Many memorable lines
Coen Brothers - Blood Simple, O Brother, Big Lebowski, Fargo, Barton Fink
Paul Thomas Anderson - Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love
Etc...

James Cameron: He makes masterpieces - Terminator, True Lies, etc.
Martin Scorsese: GoodFellas. Need I say more?
Ridley Scott: Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven
Steven Spielberg: Indiana Jones, Eagle Eye, Munich, Terminal
Clint Eastwood: Gran Torino, Cangeling
Quentin Tarantino: Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill
I can't stand Coppola.

wow! you guys have great responses
This is totally awesome. Francis Coppola was really good. I enjoyed his Godfather series. Alfred Hitchcock's always been mentioned by a lot of people, so I should try some of his movies.

Tom Tykwer - I'm always keen to see what he does. I can honestly say that while his films are all very different from each other (Run Lola Run, The Princess and The Warrior, Heaven, Perfume: Story of a Murderer), they are always interesting, innovative and worthwhile. I don't think he's ever made a bad film.

Edgar Wright - After two films (Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead) and one TV show (Spaced), I am convinced we are on the same wavelength.

Charlie Kauffman (as a screenwriter and director) - More than any other screenwriter, I feel like he is writing for me. His emotional concerns resonate with me, his sense of humour resonates with me, his difficulty, his desire to challenge the audience all really work with me. I think he's very INTJ.

Guillermo Del Toro - I appreciate his imagination, and the fact that he allows horror to be horrific, and beauty to be beautiful.

Martin Scorsese--Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, for his creativity in showing us psychological depths of paranoia and alienation.

Abbas Kiarostami and Ingmar Bergman--for their simple yet beautifully photographed and slow yet philosophically deep movies.

Vittorio De Sica and Yasujiro Ozu--Bicycle Thieves and Tokyo Story respectively; showing painful social realities with such love.

Stanley Kubrick--though I dislike how he treated his actors, his films are amazingly intellectual and "perfectly" shot.

Alfred Hitchcock--master of suspense

etc

I forgot one:
Paul Verhoeven: Total Recall, RoboCop.