Anyone I can learn something from.
And on the famous more-dead side... (I hope they are all dead... that would be embarrassing - imagine...)
LOUISE BROOKS
Aside from how much two of her films influenced my career, as an author, she wrote a set of wickedly sharp essays, on her life during the silent film era. The book, Lulu In Hollywood, is a brutally candid look at herself and those around her during that time.
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CAMILLE CLAUDEL
She for me predates Louise, in some ways - because of Rodin. I've always known of Rodin. There was never a time when I did not know him, and therefore, never a time I cound not have known of her. My discovery of her however, came long after my love of Rodin's sculpture. And somehow I feel quite connected across time.
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JULIA MARGARET CAMERON
the 19th century photographer. She looks so timid in this image, but HER photography is powerful and intense.
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KRYSTOF KIESLOWSKI
His films changed my life. Because of him and the classes he taught, I came to understand casting and the role of the director and the fundemental questions you must be searching to answer as a film director. I have seen every film he made except Double Life of Veronique. I shall never watch it. Because right now, it is for me, his next upcoming film. Once I watch it, there will be no more. :-(
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY
He was a writer. One time I was reading For Whom The Bell Tolls and was interrupted, I came out of the book and was aware how quiet the room where I was reading was - so loud and powerful is his writing. I've read most of what he wrote. Including a biography called "In Love And War" about his first love.
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INGRID BERGMAN
I think she needs no reason why. |
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SHAKE~SPEARE
Simply to settle the argument of whether he was Edward de Vere or Christopher Marlowe - once and for all.
And maybe get one or two pointers on some writing I am doing.
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oh and since we are discussing it... and it's my website... why not...
GRACE KELLY
but only when she was still single and in her "dating men named Bob phase".
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
"Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma! Tu pure, o Principessa, nella tua fredda stanza, guardi le stelle che tremano d'amore, e di speranza!"
"Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me; il nome mio nessun saprà! No, No! Sulla tua bocca lo dirò quando la luce splenderà!"
"Ed il mio bacio scioglierà il silenzio che ti fa mia!" |
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ORSON WELLES
It's a pretty hard thing when you make what most people regard as the greatest film ever made when you are 24. What do you do next?
If you don't know Welles, watch Citizen Kane, and then watch Touch Of Evil then find the radio play - "The Mercury Theater On The Air - War Of The Worlds" broadcast.
It makes the drunken outakes on U-Tube that much harder to watch.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
This guy could write. I marvel at his simplicity. He is another author whom when I encountered him I had to read and reread all he wrote.
And there's a lot more that "Stella!" |
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VICTOR FLEMING
He directed The Wizard Of Oz and Gone WIth The Wind concurrently, meaning at the same time. Re-read that.
Think about it, next time you are too tired.
He began directing in the slient era and finished in sound. He was also a cinematographer. |
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BEN FRANKLIN
He invented something or other, I think.
A stove, I think it was. Or the $100 bill. |
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