Nancy Meyers
The Holiday is expertly crafted wish fulfillment of the highest level, exhibiting the very best of what can be gleaned from such an unabashedly feel-good genre.
When you grow up around film, you see a lot of the best and craziest role models. It was incredible to watch the performance art of Charlie Chaplin, or the storytelling of directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Stanley Kubrick. The Godfather movies, with the exception of #3, still stand the test of time for the conserved pacing, subtlety and epic everything that was those two films.