I like Rushmore, for the record. Moreso his other films, but even that feels like a calculated attempt to get reviewers to call him quirky.
Also, Hitchcock isn't just a great director because he made great suspense movies, although that's helped him retain a large fanbase over the years. Much like Orson Welles, who has only managed to keep a fanbase of the hardcore and critics, really, Hitchcock was a cinema pioneer for the majority of his career; like Welles pioneering many things that are so taken for granted today that we really don't attribute them as Hitchcock popularizations. Unlike Welles, though, Hitchcock tended to make movies that were interesting to people other than critics.
I admire a lot of Scorsese's work, but nobody will ever deny that his first decade or so was substantially greater than anything that came after. I'm not as much an expert on the dude's body of work (although I watched Taxi Driver every day for like 3 years lol), but you really can't float the idea that the man that made Taxi Driver, After Hours, and The Last Temptation of Christ was a one note director. Marty has his tendencies, and sometimes he has tried to capture the same movie twice, but duder has had long as career with ups and downs, so I really think that on a long timeline, that's not as bad a crime as what Wes Anderson and Sofia Coppola do.
Btw, Wes Anderson >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sofia Coppola.
