A news article says Christopher Nolan has become one of the top 10 highest-grossing movie directors of all time... and I found it strange to see that not only the top 10, but atleast top 30 are directors of the modern era- Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Robert Zemeckis, James Cameron, to name a few. Coincidence? How did all of these living filmmakers achieve this and none from the golden age such as Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin? Maybe the box office results are not adjusted for inflation. Maybe this era is the rise of the auteur- Directors may be more powerful than the studio system they work for. Maybe the movie business has become more lucrative since the '70s. What do you think?