David Cronenberg, Guy Ritchie, Spike Lee, Guillermo del Toro, Todd Solon, Warner Herzog, Robert Rodriguez, Dan Harmon, fucking Jess Jossuidi.
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Harmony Corraine.
Akira Kurosawa.
P.T. Andersen.
Edgar Wright.
Roy Andersen.
Tim Burton.
Evan Wrightman.
Danny Boyle.
Andrea Arnold.
Billy Wilder.
Eric Apel.
David Lynch.
David Lynch.
Paul Figgs.
JJ Abrams.
Terrence Malick.
My favorite, if I had to go back in time,
my favorite filmmaker would have to be John Carpenter.
There was just something about his movies.
There were his early batch of movies from like 78
with Halloween all the way up until about,
I want to say, 85, 86 with Big Trouble in Little China.
Something about his movies that were just amazing.
For films that I love watching over and over again,
I could watch a million times.
I mean, the number one movie in that category
is George Romero's Dawn of the Dead,
the original Dawn of the Dead.
Although I like the remake as well, too.
But that's a movie that I could watch a million times.
And I love him as a filmmaker, too, because although he's
made many zombie films that are kind of the same,
he has made other films like, I don't know
if you've seen the film Martin, but it's a very low-key vampire
movie that he did before he started getting into the whole
zombie chronicles.
And I love that movie as well.
But he's a filmmaker that I just enjoy his work so much,
and they're films I could watch over and over again.
And for me, I think that speaks volumes, you know,
and you can watch the same movie over a dozen times.
I mean, first person I thought of is Steven Sunberg.
He does so much stuff, and it's awesome.
Even the silly stuff, like Aaron Brockvich, yeah.
Like, he could do tons of different genres.
He can do crazy things.
Gizopolis.
I just saw Haywire.
Loved it.
I loved Haywire.
He did The Limey.
That was great.
So, oh, she's 11.
Those movies, like, they're fun.
I love Neville Dean Taylor, which are concurrent directors,
and they're just a two-man team, and they are crazy.
They just, like, if instead of doing dolly shots,
they'll just strap on rollerblades and just
man the camera themselves.
Instead of doing safety cars for, like, action scenes,
they'll just hang onto the back of motorcycles
with these rollerblades and just ride with the people.
They're batshit crazy, and I think they're awesome.
As far as animation goes, I'd say everything
that the folks at Cartoon Network and Adult Swim
were doing in the 90s and 2000s was
a huge influence on me.
I'm a huge fan of Jim Henson and the Muppets and everything
he was doing in the 60s and 70s and 80s.
I don't know.
Like, growing up, I was a huge Tim Burton fan,
but now I don't like anything that he does.
So that's sort of disappointing for me.
You know, like, I love John Carpenter
just because I'm a big car fan.
But it's tough, you know, because there's so many filmmakers
that people always mention that are, of course, inspirations.
But I wouldn't say that any, in particular,
inspire my work.
Yorgos Lanthimos and then Athena Rachel Sangari.
And I just love the work that they're making.
So, so fantastic.
Such a really wonderful way of creating
very specific worlds that this world can only exist
in this one world that it's created.
There's a filmmaker that I actively avoided for 10 years
because I had heard a rumor that he
had endangered his crew on a set.
And just out of principle, I said,
I will not watch a film this man does.
Then, a couple years ago, I come to find out
that that rumor was completely false,
which I should have known because you should never
believe rumors.
And that's when I started to get into the cinema of Werner
Herzog.
And I'm not going to say that I have 100%
enjoyed every single movie he's ever done,
but there is an alarming percentage of them
that I do really, really enjoy.
Someone who I look at for what I do and the kind of work I do,
I really love Errol Morris.
He's just, he's awesome.
He, he, he is interviews.
To me, Errol Morris does interviews better than anyone.
I think that's probably my favorite part of my job
is interviewing people.
I like Kronenberg.
I think Argento, which most of my friends know I like.
But yes, Argento.
It's great.
