Lista de gente que le ha influenciado

Según él mismo:
"These are not in any special order:
- Buzz Feitshans (editor and producer)
- David Lean
- Preston Sturges
- John Sturges
- George Lucas
- Francois Truffaut
- Ingmar Bergman
- Rouben Mamoulian
- King Vidor
- Clarence Brown
- John Frankenheimer
- Vincente Minnelli
- George Stevens
- Fred Zinnemann
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Akira Kurosawa
- Stanley Kubrick
- Howard Hawks
- George Seaton
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Francis Ford Coppola
- John Schlesinger
- Don Siegel
- Orson Welles
- Henry Hathaway
- Arthur Penn
- Fritz Lang
- John Cassavetes
- Billy Wilder
- Federico Fellini
- William Wyler
- Frank Capra
- John Ford
- George Cukor
- Walt Disney
- John Huston
- Jean Renoir
- Elia Kazan
- Milos Forman
- William Wellman
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Tay Garnett
- Samuel Fuller
- Costa Gavras."