Your top 5 directors?

1. Quentin Tarantino
2. Sergio Leone
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Alfred Hitchcock
5. Stanley Kubrick

1. Wes Craven
2. David Fincher
3. Hideo Nakata
4. Roberto Rossellini
5. Ingmar Bergman

Volker Flenske: (While torturing David) I don't know why you're doing this to yourself!

1. David Fincher
2. Tarsem Singh
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Terry Gilliam
5. John Hughes

Tarkovsky, Fassbinder, Bergman, Dreyer, Pasolini

In alphabetical order by last name:

Charles Chaplin - master of all emotions, the most influential filmmaker ever
Werner Herzog - the greatest documentarian, the son of mother nature and father time
Akira Kurosawa - brilliant combination of entertainment with philosophical density
Terrence Malick - the most visually beautiful and emotionally rich films
Steven Spielberg - made me fall in love with the magic of cinema

Alfred Hitchcock
Howard Hawks
David Lean
John Ford
Orson Welles

Top 5 is very short. But I'd say:

1. Quentin Tarantino
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. David Fincher
5. Francis Ford Cappola

Alfred Hitchcock
Billy Wilder
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Ingmar Bergman