At the moment I have a top 4 favorite directors. There are many directors that I like, such as Paul Thomas Anderson and Andrei Tarkovski for example, who have made films that I would consider 10/10 quality, but have either released other films I’m not so crazy about and/or haven’t seen enough from them to give them a place on my list of favorite directors (YET!) Only time will tell how my list will expand. The list is short, for now it would be (in particular no order):

Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
Quentin Tarantino
Park Chan-Wook

Other directors that I really admire who may wind up on the list someday, but wouldn’t put on the list just yet:

Andrei Tarkovsky (after only seeing two films, mind you)
Paul Thomas Anderson
Sam Raimi
Terry Gilliam
John Carpenter
Bong Joon-ho
Joel & Ethan Coen
Martin Scorsese
Sergio Leone
Mike Flanagan
Robert Eggers
Vince Gilligan
Rian Johnson