David Lynch's Favorite Directors
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Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images. - David Lynch
He mentioned Jacques Tati in another interview.
Recommendations are welcome.