I thought Stanley Kubrick was overrated. I found so much of his stuff to be contrivedly strange. Like it showed how he was deliberately doing strange things rather than letting art happen that coincidentally happened to be weird.

My favorites are Sidney Pollack, Clint Eastwood, Ang Lee and, I think, Robert Redford. All four of them can just take your breath away with their breathtaking visuals and, at the same time, the subtlety of their films.