After looking through my Recommendations For A Novice Film Viewer list, I have thought for some time to make a film list that would appeal to those who genuinely appreciate the visionary behind the camera.

I have provided the first three suggestions, and I wanted them to be obvious ones, because I am asking you, the Letterboxd community to provide some suggestions of directors that people should invest their time in and possibly find something of significant value through exploration. It would also be wonderful if quotes from your own or other peoples' reviews that perfectly summarise the director's appeal could be provided. Hopefully the suggestions provided would be diverse.

I will consistently look for quotes when I have spare time on my hands to fill each director's notes.

*It seems finding quotes have been harder than I thought. If people could contribute some quotes to go with these entries, even if the entries are not your own; it would make the list much more sophisticated and expansive, and I would really appreciate it.