section_path: Style and influences
section_name: Style and influences
paragraph_text: Style and influences
  
  Baker has established a reputation for portraying outcasts and characters from underrepresented and marginalized subcultures, frequently undocumented immigrants and sex workers, in decidedly humane and compassionate scenarios. He claims to have been directly inspired by exploitation films but has been described as the archetype of a "trustworthy male director" in a post Me Too era. His films have stirred and encouraged a debate about sexual morality.
  
  Baker's influences include Ken Loach, Spike Lee, Federico Fellini, Jim Jarmusch, Mike Leigh, Steven Spielberg, Éric Rohmer, Lars Von Trier, John Cassavetes, and Hal Ashby among others. Baker has said that he consciously includes Easter egg references to other movies in his filmography. For example, a billboard advertising a performance by the character named Strawberry from Red Rocket can be seen near the end of Anora.
  
  Baker has established a reputation for portraying outcasts and characters from underrepresented and marginalized subcultures, frequently undocumented immigrants and sex workers, in decidedly humane and compassionate scenarios. He claims to have been directly inspired by exploitation films but has been described as the archetype of a "trustworthy male director" in a post Me Too era. His films have stirred and encouraged a debate about sexual morality.
  
  Baker's influences include Ken Loach, Spike Lee, Federico Fellini, Jim Jarmusch, Mike Leigh, Steven Spielberg, Éric Rohmer, Lars Von Trier, John Cassavetes, and Hal Ashby among others. Baker has said that he consciously includes Easter egg references to other movies in his filmography. For example, a billboard advertising a performance by the character named Strawberry from Red Rocket can be seen near the end of Anora.