“Impossible to emulate”: the directors Walter Hill called inimitable geniuses
Filmmakers who can’t be beat.
John Ford
“They used a nice trick, a little quirk”: Ridley Scott names the directors who influenced him the most
Having spent almost a decade working behind the camera before he’d even helmed his first feature, directing thousands upon thousands of commercials and advertisements in…
The director Howard Hawks thought had “the greatest vision”
“He has done some things that are just fabulous.”
How Orson Welles’ favourite American directors taught him the art of timelessness
The dos and dont’s of greatness.
Sam Peckinpah names his favourite western movies: “They’re always too long but they’re fun to watch”
Top marks from the maverick.
“Staggeringly powerful”: the director Ridley Scott called a master of the universe
“I’d never be able to say that to an actor…”
Sergio Leone on the directors who represent the “alternating petals of the American daisy”
An outsider’s unique perspective.
