reading, films, music (playing and listening), comedy (being funny keeps you sane), going to shows
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. - Jean Luc Godard
"Saving Private Ryan is morally sanctionable. My films are immoral."
- Martin Scorsese
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
- David Cronenberg
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Wes Anderson: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums
Michaelangel Antonioni: Blowup, L'avventura
Dario Argento: Opera, Suspiria
Tim Burton: Big Fish, Batman, Beetlejuice, Nightmare Before Xmas, Edward Scissorhands
Coen Brothers: Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Fargo, O, Brother Where Art Thou?
Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now, Godfather 1+2, Conversation, Dracula
Sofia Coppola: Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation
David Cronenberg: Existenz, Crash, Videodrome, Scanners, The Brood, The Fly, Rabid
Sergei Eisenstein: Bronenosets Potyomkin, Stachka, Bezhin lug, Aleksandr Nevskiy
David Fincher: Fight Club, The Game, Se7en
John Ford: Grapes of Wrath, The Searchers, Stagecoach
Terry Gilliam: Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Jean-Luc Godard: Vivre sa Vie, Pierrot le Fou, Bande a Part, Une Femme est une Femme, Alphaville
Christopher Guest: Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show
Alfred Hitchcock: The Birds, Psycho, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Marnie, Strangers on a Train, The Man Who Knew Too Much(1956), Vertigo
Hiroshi Inagaki: Samurai Trilogy
Peter Jackson: Bad Taste, Dead Alive, LOTR Trilogy
Jean-Pierre Jeunet: City of Lost Children, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement
Stanley Kubrick: uh, All?(yes, even Eyes Wide Shut)
Akira Kurosawa: Seven Samurai, Kagemusha, Ran, Yojimbo
Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing, Bamboozled, Son of Sam, She's Gotta Have It, School Daze
Sergio Leone: The Dollar Trilogy, Once Upon a Time in the West
Richard Linklater: Before Sunrise, Before Sunset
Hayao Miyazaki: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away
Christopher Nolan: Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins
Kihachi Okamoto: Sword of Doom
Mamoru Oshii: Ghost in the Shell 1+2
Park Chan-Wook: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Lady Vengeance
Sam Raimi: Army of Darkness, Evil Dead 1+2, Spiderman 1+2
Alain Resnais: Night and Fog, Hiroshima mon amour
George A. Romero: Night/Dawn/Day/Land of the Dead, Creepshow
Martin Scorsese: Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Casino, Gangs of NY
Francois Truffaut: Les quatre cents coups, Jules et Jim, Tirez sur le pianiste
Tom Tykver: Run Lola Run, Winter Sleepers, Princess and the Warrior, Heaven
Orson Welles: Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane, The Stranger, Lady From Shanghai
Billy Wilder: Some Like it Hot, Double Indemnity
Wong Kar-Wai: Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, In the Mood for Love, 2046
John Woo: Killer, Hard-Boiled, A Better Tomorrow 1+2
Misc: Commando, Akira, City of God, An American in Paris, Monty Python: Meaning of Life & Life of Brian, Hell's Angels, Ichi the Killer, Hostel, The Hills Have Eyes(2006)
Upright Citizen's Brigade!!!!, Arrested Development!!, South Park, Aqua Teen Hungerforce, Adult Swim in general, Monty Python, Black Adder, MST3k
Anything by: Alan Moore, Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman,
Hunter S. Thompson, Frank Miller, H.P. Lovecraft, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, Oscar Wilde;
white noise, l'etranger, sandman, demian, siddartha, dune, great gatsby, hamlet, macbeth, catch-22, the old man and the sea, brave new world
Cam'ron -
Cause I feed you well
Every sneaker, hell
You eat Louis, shit Gucci, breathe Chanel
Karl Lagerfeld, acting like Gargamel