Playing with my son, Watching films of all kind, Music, Writing, Reading anything I can get my hands on, Photography, Watching Football (49ers) and Baseball (Mariners), Video Games when I get the rare chance to play, Cribbage and Poker.
There's hundreds of people, but if I had to say one, I guess it would be Steven Speilberg. He's the first director I ever knew of, the first to make me interested in filmmaking. Plus he's created so many of my all-time favorite films.
The Shins, Weezer, Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab For Cutie, New Pornographers, Beck, The Beatles, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, The Police, Talking Heads, The Cars, Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Old Elton John, Creedance, Queen, Beach Boys, Roger Miller, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, The White Stripes, Sublime, They Might Be Giants... I could go on forever.
The Matrix, Raising Arizona, Fight Club, Boogie Nights, Being John Malkovich, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner, Jaws, Office Space, American Beauty, Dogma, Ghost World, American Movie, The Incredibles, Iron Giant, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Amelie, Rushmore, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice... and a hundred more.
The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Entourage, Survivor, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Futurama
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Childhood's End, Modoc, Harry Potter, Watchers, Catcher in the Rye, His Dark Materials and anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Phillip K. Dick, Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Roald Dahl or Arthur C. Clarke
My Wife and my Mom and DadAnd look at the directors list above.