Here's something I noticed that seems slightly troubling. There don't seem to be any great American movie directors under the age of 40. If you take a look at the youngest great American directors, all of them are over 40, and all made a name for themselves in the nineties, at least ten years ago.
I am thinking especially of these five:

Paul Thomas Anderson (b. 1970)
Spike Jonze (b. 1969)
Wes Anderson (b. 1969)
Darren Aronofsky (b. 1969)
Christopher Nolan (b. 1970)

but you could even push it to include guys like:
David Fincher (b. 1962)
Alexander Payne (b. 1961)
Quentin Tarantino (b. 1963)

The last great group of American directors seem to have been born in the sixties and to have emerged in the nineties. Who are the great directors to have emerged in this most recent decade? To have been born in the seventies or eighties? The nineties saw the obvious emergence of many great directors. There doesn't seem to have been any such obvious emergences of young American directors in the 00's. The closest I can think of are David Gordon Green (b. 1975) and Ramin Bahrani (b. 1975). But they don't come close to reaching the success of guys just six years older than they are.

So, why the break? Why did the nineties allow so many great directors to come up, but the 00's seem to have created none. Where were they?
Or am I totally off?

Harmony Korine

Danny O'Malley

(b. 1973), emerged in the nineties, and again nowhere near as successful as those others.

i didn't read all of your post nor have i even seen a Harmony Korine film

Alfonso Cuarón

Guillermo del Toro

Robert Rodriguez

Chan-wook Park

I guess they are all older too, but didn't come to light until the '00s, and none of them are american.

David Gordon Green, really?

Chan Ho Park

Ichiro Suzuki

Carlos Gonzalez

Vinnie Del Negro

Christopher Nolan is British.

This.

None of those guys are American either.

this is the funniest A&E thread in awhile

i really hope jorge posts in here soon

ha sorry but you edited that after I posted it.

I'm pretty sure he has dual citizenship. Not really American but more of a halfsie.

What did I do wrong? Forget you guys, I'm addressing all posts in this thread seriously.
First of all, fitzy. Cuaron and del Toro are Mexican, not American. Robert Rodriguez is American, but he was born in 1968 and emerged in the nineties. Chan wook park was born in 1963 and is fucking Korean.
lenny, those guys are athletes, not directors. If they were directors, and their sports career was the same as their film career, none would count, anyways.
paaks, Chris Nolan is British, but he makes American movies so I'm counting him. All of his good movies are American, from Memento on.

I think I've realized why no young American directors emerged in the last decade. Young Americans are stupid and they ruin good threads so they'd probably ruin good movies, too.

What about the dude who did Brick and Brothers Bloom? He seems to qualify nicely.

i watched Brick the other day...pretty good

You completely ignored my post.