Stanley Kubrick
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Alfred Hitchcock
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

I do like Hitchock - his movies were all well-edited. No fat.
Kiarostami has to be a favorite of mine for "taste of cherry" and "close-up"
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I have been catching up on a bunch of Hitchcock movies I have never seen. I have always enjoyed the movies of his I have seen. But there are many I had never seen for a bunch of reasons. But I got the three volumes 4K box sets and I had only seen about half the movies on those sets. He has so many movies.
Some of my favourite directors are
Orson Welles
Billy Wilder
John Ford
Frank Capra
Howard Hawks
Fritz Lang
Andrei Tarkovsky
Carol Reed
Ishiro Honda
Abbas Kiarostami
David Lynch
Jim Jarmusch
Martin Scorsese
Robert Altman
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
Brian De Palma
Steven Spielberg
John Sayles
Joe Dante
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Frank Henenlotter
Michael Mann
David Fincher
John Carpenter
David Cronenberg
Sam Raimi
George Miller
Syndey Lumet
Paul Thomas Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
Christopher Nolan
Michelangelo Antonioni
William Friedkin
George A. Romero
Coen Brothers
Clint Eeastwood
Sergio Leone
Sergio Corbucci
Dario Argento

Pretty great list. I like most of these filmmakers.