Who are your Fifteen Great Directors?

I got a Facebook posting today, asking: "Who are the Fifteen Directors who've influenced you and that will ALWAYS STICK WITH YOU. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes."

I had to think about it. I took on the challenge and this is what I came up with. I thought it might be interesting if I listed them here, and gave a brief blurb on either why and who they are. There is no specific order involved.

• Woody Allen -
• Alfred Hitchcock -
• Stanley Kubrick -
• Francois Truffaut -
• Fellini -
• Luis Bunuel -
• Stephen Speilberg -
• Jean Cocteau -
• Werner Herzog -
• David Lean -
• Martin Scorsese -
• The Coen Brothers -
• Akira Kurosawa -
• Sam Peckinpah -
• Lina Wertmüller -

Also, James Cameron, John Carpenter, Paul Verhoeven, David Cronenberg, and I'm sure others.