Most Difficult Directors to Work With

The Top Ten
1 Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. He died at the age of 71.

He was obsessed with perfection!

2 Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, was an English-American film director and producer, at times referred to as "The Master of Suspense".

Kubrick was pretty hard to work with, but Hitchcock did some much worse things

Alfred Hitchcock isn't number 1. What joke is this?

No Question about it. How come he not number 1

3 James Cameron James Cameron is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, and deep-sea explorer. He is best known for his films, The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Titanic, and Avatar. He is also the third person in history to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean and the only person to do it solo and unassisted.

The actors he's worked with said that he's not real sensitive when it comes to actors.

4 Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.
5 David O. Russell
6 Lars Von Trier
7 Michael Bay Michael Benjamin Bay is an American filmmaker known for directing and producing big-budget action films characterized by fast cutting, stylistic visuals and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depiction of explosions.
8 Otto Preminger
9 Josef von Sternberg
10 David Fincher David Andrew Leo Fincher is an American film director, film producer, television director, television producer, and music video director.
The Contenders
11 David Lean
12 Roman Polanski Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film directer, best known for Repulsion (1965), Rosemary's Baby (1968), and Chinatown (1974). His former wife, Sharon Tate, along with their unborn son, was murdered by followers of Charles Manson. Polanski is also a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system; he fled the country in 1977 while awaiting sentencing for unlawful intercourse with a minor.
13 Terrence Malick
14 Oliver Stone William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express (1978), and wrote the gangster film remake Scarface (1983). Stone achieved prominence as writer and director of the war drama Platoon (1986), which won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture. Platoon was the first in a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served as an infantry soldier. He continued the series with Born on the Fourth of July (1989)—for which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and Heaven & Earth (1993). Stone's other works include the Salvadoran Civil ...read more.

Anyone who knows of his behavior on the set of Platoon (1986) knows of what a horrible man Oliver Stone is.

On the set of said movie he acted like a drill instructor on the grounds that he wanted the actors to act and think like soldiers which is ridiculous because none of the cast had ever served in the military and Stone was putting regular actors through hell on the grounds that he wanted "realism". Even at the time the cast and crew thought that Stone was psychotic and abusive.
Due to recent social changes in the attitudes towards bullying, harrassment, mental health and masculinity, Oliver Stone's behavour would certainly not be permitted today.

I am surprised that Oliver Stone still has a career considering that he is a vile bully, he has been accused of sexual assault/harrassment, he has made antisemitic and homophobic remarks and at one point he was one of the biggest celebrity supporters of Vladimir Putin.

15 Quentin Tarantino Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film critic and author. His films are characterized by frequent references to popular culture and film history, nonlinear storylines, dark humor, stylized violence, extended dialogue, pervasive use of profanity, cameos and ensemble casts. ...read more.

Heard he is a total dick to work with

16 Michael Mann
17 Werner Herzog
18 Michael Cimino
19 Warren Beatty Henry Warren Beatty is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds.
20 Peter Bogdanovich
21 Elaine May
22 Sam Peckinpah
23 William Friedkin
24 John Avildsen
25 Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular directors and producers in film history.

Actually, I think the actors he works with like him

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