坊間上有不少什麼最偉大的100個xxx或 xxxx things you must do before you die那裹內容空洞的入門書。自問自己已看了好幾年電影，我一早已不把自己視為初哥，開口埋口就是英瑪褒曼阿倫雷奈，還要開一個xanga用英文寫影評扮專家。今天在書局中看見一本名為 “The Director’s Vision: A Concise Guide of 250 Great Film-Makers”的簡體版時，我只翻了數翻就重新感到自己其實原來還是一個入門者罷了，看了數年電影，250位導演中未看過的俯拾皆是，但竟然還有很多自己是從未聽聞過，確實使自以為是的我開始明白什麼是坐井觀天。驚覺已在井下數年光陰，唯望井口的天空能越來越大。

以下是書中250位電影導演名單，有*者是本人所看過其作品的，而有**者則是本人喜歡的導演，只要看看名單相信你也會感受到電影世界之大︰

1. Woody Allen **
2. Robert Aldrich
3. Lindsay Anderson
4. Pedro Almodovar *
5. Robert Altman *
6. Kenneth Anger
7. Jack Arnold
8. Theo Angelopoulos *
9. Michelangelo Antonioni **
10. Dorothy Arzner
11. Tex Avery
12. Bernardo Bertolucci *
13. Luc Besson *
14. Mario Bava
15. Jacques Becker
16. Kathyrn Bigelow
17. Bertrand Blier
18. Ingmar Bergman **
19. Busby Berkeley
20. Budd Boetticher
21. John Boorman
22. Walerian Borowczyk
23. Frank Borzage
24. Tim Burton *
25. James Cameron *
26. Joao Botelho
27. Robert Bresson *
28. Jane Campion
29. Leos Carax
30. Mel Brooks
31. Tod Browning
32. John Carpenter
33. Youssef Chahine
34. Luis Bunuel *
35. Frank Capra
36. Chen Kaige *
37. Michael Cimino *
38. Marcel Carne
39. John Cassavetes *
40. Souleymane Cisse
41. Joel and Ethan Coen *
42. Claude Chabrol *
43. Charles Chaplin
44. Francis Ford Coppola *
45. Konstantin Costa-Gavras *
46. Rene Clair
47. Henri-Georges Clouzot
48. David Cronenberg *
49. Joe Dante
50. Jean Cocteau *
51. Roger Corman
52. Terence Davies
53. Jonathan Demme *
54. George Cukor *
55. Michael Curtiz
56. Jacques Demy **
57. Brian De Palma *
58. Jules Dassin
59. Cecil B. DeMille
60. Walt Disney *
61. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly *
62. Vittorio De Sica **
63. William Dieterle
64. Clint Eastwood *
65. Victor Erice *
66. Alexander Dovzhenko
67. Carl Dreyer
68. Rainer Werner Fassbinder *
69. Terence Fisher
70. Allan Dwan
71. Sergei Eisenstein
72. John Ford
73. Milos Forman
74. Federico Fellini **
75. Louis Feuillade
76. Terry Gilliam *
77. Peter Greenaway *
78. Robert J. Flaherty
79. Max and Dave Fleischer
80. Yilmaz Guney
81. Michael Haneke **
82. Gerogres Franju
83. John Frankenheimer *
84. William Hanna and Joseph Babera
85. Hal Hartley
86. Samuel Fuller
87. Abel Gance
88. Todd Hanyes *
89. Werner Herzog *
90. Jean-Luc Godard *
91. D.W. Griffith
92. Walter Hill
93. Dennis Hopper
94. Robert Hamer
95. Howard Hawks
96. Hou Hsiau-Hsien *
97. King Hu *
98. Alfred Hitchcock **
99. John Huston
100. Im Kwon-Taek
101. James Ivory
102. Miklos Jansco
103. Elia Kazan *
104. Derek Jarman *
105. Jim Jarmusch **
106. Buster Keaton
107. Grigori Kozintsev
108. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro *
109. Chuck Jones
110. Akira Kurosawa *
111. Fritz Lang *
112. Aki Kaurismaki *
113. Abbas Kiarostami *
114. Charles Laughton
115. Mitchell Leisen
116. Krzystof Kieslowski *
117. Takeshi Kitano *
118. Richard Lester *
119. Albert Lewin
120. Stanley Kubrick **
121. Emir Kusturica *
122. Joseph H. Lewis
123. Joseph Losey
124. David Lean *
125. Spike Lee
126. Ernst Lubitsch
127. Sidney Lumet *
128. Mike Leigh *
129. Sergio Leone *
130. Auguste and Louis Lumiere *
131. Ida Lupino
132. Ken Loach *
133. George Lucas
134. Dusan Makavejeh
135. Rouben Mamoulian
136. Baz Luhrmann
137. Len Lye
138. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
139. Chris Marker **
140. David Lynch *
141. Alexander Mackendrick
142. Winson McCay
143. Norman McLaren
144. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
145. Terrence Malick
146. Geroges Melies *
147. Jean-Pierre Melville
148. Louis Malle
149. Anthony Mann
150. Kenji Mizoguchi **
151. F.W. Murnau *
152. Michael Mann *
153. Russ Meyer
154. Max Ophuls
155. Nagisa Oshima *
156. John Milius
157. Vincente Minnelli
158. Yasujiro Ozu **
159. G.W. Pabst
160. Nanni Moretti *
161. Errol Morris
162. Pier Paolo Pasolini *
163. D.A. Pennebaker
164. Idrissa Ouedraogo
165. Alan J. Pakula
166. Roman Polanski *
167. Gillo Pontecorvo
168. Sergei Paradzhanov
169. Nick Park
170. Edwin S. Porter
171. Otto Preminger
172. Alan Parker *
173. Sam Peckinpah
174. Satyajit Ray **
175. Carol Reed *
176. Arthur Penn *
177. Maurice Pialat
178. Jean Renoir *
179. Alain Resnais **
180. Michael Powell *
181. The Brothers Quay, Steven and Timothy
182. Leni Riefenstahl
183. Eric Rohmer **
184. Nicholas Ray *
185. Jacques Rivette *
186. George A. Romero
187. Francesco Rosi *
188. Nicolas Roeg
189. Alan Rudolph
190. Roberto Rossellini
191. Raul Ruiz
192. Ken Russell
193. Walter Salles *
194. Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper
195. Ousmane Sembene
196. Carlos Saura
197. John Sayles
198. Mack Sennett
199. Robert Siodmak
200. Paul Schrader *
201. Martin Scorsese *
202. Victor Sjostrom
203. Wladislaw Starewicz
204. Ridley Scott *
205. Don Sigel
206. Jean-Marie Straub
207. Preston Sturges
208. Douglas Sirk
209. Todd Solondz *
210. Jan Svankmajer *
211. Quentin Tarantino *
212. Steven Spielberg *
213. Whit Stillman
214. Jacques Tati **
215. Jacques Tourneur
216. Oliver Stone *
217. Seijun Suzuki *
218. Edgar G. Ulmer
219. Dziga Vertov *
220. Hans-Jurgen Syberberg
221. Andrei Tarkovsky **
222. King Vidor
223. Jean Vigo *
224. Frank Tashlin
225. Vittorio and Paolo Taviani
226. Josef Von Sternberg
227. Erich Von Stroheim
228. Francois Truffaut *
229. Shinya Tsukamoto
230. Andrzej Wajda
231. Raoul Walsh
232. Luchino Visconti *
233. Lars von Trier *
234. Andy Warhol
235. Fred Zinnemann
236. John Waters
237. William Wellman
238. Orson Welles *
239. Wim Wenders *
240. Wong Kar Wai *
241. John Woo *
242. James Whale
243. Robert Wiene
244. Edward Yang **
245. Robert Zemeckis *
246. Billy Wilder *
247. Ed Wood
248. Zhang Yimou *
249. Peter Weir *
250. William Wyler *