Directors I’ve Seen in Person

Maren Ade
Woody Allen
Michael Almereyda
Pedro Almodóvar
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Dario Argento
Darren Aronofsky
Olivier Assayas
Ari Aster
John G. Avildsen
Ramin Bahrani
Annie Baker
Sean Baker
Bob Balaban
Noah Baumbach
Don Bluth
Peter Bogdanovich
Bertrand Bonello
Danny Boyle
Catherine Breillat
Albert Brooks
Mel Brooks
Charles Burnett
Steve Buscemi
David Byrne
Louis C.K.
Bruce Campbell
Jane Campion
John Carpenter
Nuri Bige Ceylan
George Clooney
Joel and Ethan Coen
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Roger Corman
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Robert De Niro
Brian De Palma
Guillermo del Toro
Jonathan Demme
Claire Denis
Bas Devos
Robert Downey Sr.
Julia Ducournau
Lena Dunham
Robert Eggers
Ralph Fiennes
Stephen Frears
William Friedkin
Costa-Gavras
Ricky Gervais
Greta Gerwig
Alex Gibney
Terry Gilliam
Jonathan Glazer
Michel Gondry
Lee Grant
David Gordon Green
Luca Guadagnino
Christopher Guest
James Gunn
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Andrew Haigh
Mia Hansen-Løve
Todd Haynes
Matthew Heineman
Eliza Hittman
Joanna Hogg
Sang-soo Hong
Christophe Honoré
Armando Iannucci
James Ivory
Raven Jackson
Steve James
Jim Jarmusch
Barry Jenkins
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Charlie Kaufman
Harmony Korine
Yorgos Lanthimos
Nadav Lapid
Spike Lee
Mike Leigh
Sebastián Lelio
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Richard Linklater
David Lowery
David Lynch
David Mamet
Michael Mann
Elaine May
Martin McDonagh
Scott McGehee and David Siegel
Jonas Mekas
Bennett Miller
Rebecca Miller
Mike Mills
John Cameron Mitchell
Michael Moore
Brett Morgen
Errol Morris
Oren Moverman
Cristian Mungiu
Mira Nair
Morgan Neville
Gaspar Noé
Tom Noonan
Joshua Oppenheimer
Ruben Östlund
Frank Oz
Al Pacino
Chan-wook Park
Alexander Payne
D.A. Pennebaker
Alex Ross Perry
Matías Piñeiro
Sarah Polley
Sam Raimi
Lynne Ramsay
Dee Rees
Nicolas Winding Refn
Kelly Reichardt
Jason Reitman
Chris Rock
Seth Rogen
Alice Rohrwacher
George A. Romero
Ira Sachs
Benny and Josh Safdie
Jeremy Saulnier
John Sayles
Jerry Schatzberg
Jane Schoenbrun
Paul Schrader
Barbet Schroeder
Céline Sciamma
Martin Scorsese
Albert Serra
Michael Showalter
Trey Edward Shults
Chris Smith
Kevin Smith
Steven Soderbergh
Todd Solondz
Steven Spielberg
Ben Stiller
Whit Stillman
Joe Swanberg
Joachim Trier
Tsai Ming-liang
John Turturro
Agnès Varda
Gore Verbinski
Paul Verhoeven
Taika Waititi
Denzel Washington
John Waters
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Charlotte Wells
Wim Wenders
Sean Price Williams
Frederick Wiseman
Edgar Wright
Chloé Zhao
Rob Zombie
Terry Zwigoff