Poll: Directors Insulting Each Other (Part 1)

Results of 1,955 votes:

1. 1.
   

   Uwe Boll

    

   "I'm not a retard like Michael Bay."
2. 2.
   

   Clint Eastwood

    

   on Spike Lee: "A guy like him should shut his face."
3. 3.
   

   Nick Broomfield

    

   on Quentin Tarantino: "It’s like watching a schoolboy’s fantasy of violence and sex, which normally Quentin Tarantino would be wanking alone to in his bedroom while this mother is making his bake…
4. 4.
   

   Kevin Smith

    

   on Paul Thomas Anderson and his film 'Magnolia': "I’ll never watch it again, but I will keep it. I’ll keep it right on my desk, as a constant reminder that a bloated sense of self-importance is t…
5. 5.
   

   Michael Haneke

    

   "I remember when Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" came out, and I was sitting in a matinee filled with young people. The famous scene of a boy's head being blown off caused a huge com…
6. 6.
   

   Werner Herzog

    

   "Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung-fu film.”
7. 7.
   

   Orson Welles

    

   on Jean-Luc Godard: "His gifts as a director are enormous. I just can’t take him very seriously as a thinker — and that’s where we seem to differ, because he does. His message is what he cares ab…
8. 8.
   

   Jacques Rivette

    

   on James Cameron and Steven Spielberg: "Cameron isn’t evil, he’s not an *beep* like Spielberg. He wants to be the new De Mille. Unfortunately, he can’t direct his way out of a paper bag."
9. 9.
   

   François Truffaut

    

   "Antonioni is the only important director I have nothing good to say about. He bores me; he’s so solemn and humorless."
10. 10.
    

    Vincent Gallo

     

    on Spike Jonze: "He's the biggest fraud out there. If you bring him to a party he's the least interesting person at the party, he's the person who doesn't know anything. He’s the person who doesn…
11. 11.
    

    Jean-Luc Godard

     

    on Steven Spielberg: "I don’t know him personally. I don’t think his films are very good."
12. 12.
    

    Vincent Gallo

     

    "I wouldn’t work for Martin Scorsese for $10 million. He hasn’t made a good film in 25 years. I would never work with an egomaniac has-been."
13. 13.
    

    Spike Lee

     

    on Tyler Perry: "We got a black president, and we going back to Mantan Moreland and Sleep ‘n’ Eat?"
14. 14.
    

    Tyler Perry

     

    on Spike Lee: "Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that… Spike needs to shut the hell up!"
15. 15.
    

    Ken Russell

     

    on Richard Attenborough: "Sir Richard (‘I’m-going-to-attack-the-Establishment-fifty-years-after-it’s-dead’) Attenborough is guilty of caricature, a sense of righteous self-satisfaction, and repet…
16. 16.
    

    Peter Hyams

     

    on Ted Kotcheff: "Up his with a French Horn."