Wes Anderson is definately in my top five directors of all time (American atleast), probably 3rd behind David Lynch and Martin Scorsese.
Anderson has directed the following movies....Bottle Rocket (I know I say this alot, but literally one of my top ten movies EVER and also one of Martin Scorsese's favorite films), Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums (another one of my top ten), The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, and the Darjeeling Limited. Right now he's working on a stop-motion adaptation of The Fantastic Mr. Fox, which should be amazing. Alot of people don't realize it, but Owen Wilson helped write the first three of those movies I just mentioned. Wilson gets alot of shit for his acting, but he can write his fucking ass off.
Anderson, alot like Scorsese, has this ability to just PERFECTLY match up music with images, his choice of music in his films is impeccable. At the end of Bottle Rocket, the way he uses the Rolling Stones "2000 Man", might just be my favorite scene in a movie ever (well that or the opening credit sequence of Reservoir Dogs)
Seriously, watch every one of his films, ESPECIALLY his first one Bottle Rocket. I cannot express how fucking good that film is, and it's the only movie with Owen Wilson I've ever seen where I thought to myself..."Holy shit Owen Wilson is a pretty damn good actor!"
See the Life Aquatic ASAP JMT, I just know you will absolutely love it to death. Seriously, every single film that Anderson has made is perfect in my eyes, can you tell I love the guy?