Agree with everything said about there being no set criteria for qualifying as a 'great' director apart from making 'great' films, which are obviously just as impossible to quantify. And yet for all that apparent uncertainty it's interesting that some filmmakers, say, Hitchcock, are near universally acknowledged as great, just as others, say, Michael Bay are considered bad. And then there's those, say Kubrick, who it seems will forever divide people.
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