I'd like to meet:
Roger Deakins and Greg Toland.
Music:
The Mars Volta, Chet Baker, Led Zepplin, Mile Davis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaugh, Count Basie, Chopin, The Ramones, Ravi Shankar, Muse, Rancid, The Fall of Troy, Dead Kennedys, Herbie Hancock, The Roots, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, The Blood Brothers, At The Drive In, De La Soul, Wu Tang, Rage Agianst The Machine, and pretty much everything else.
Movies:
Jim Jarmusch, Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Greg Toland, Rodrigo Pierto, Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarrtu, Sophia Coppola, Tim Burton, Orsen Wells, Spike Lee, Takeshi Kitano, Spike Jones, Akira Kurosawa, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam, and quite a bit more.
Books:
Kafka, Conrad, O'Brien, Orwell, Marx, film making text books...
Heroes:
Thierry Henry