Filmmaking, moviemaking & media, especially new media, narrative films, features and shorts, documentaries, music videos. Interactive media, too.
Art & design... painting, drawing, sculpture, dollmaking, modelmaking, architecture, bookmaking, illustration, web design, photography, photo illustration, digital photo editing and photo illustration.
Dancing, singing, making music, laughing, intelligent conversation, adventures, and sexytime, of course.
Favorite Actors:
Drew Barrymore, Gary Oldman, Johnny Depp, Billy Zane, Kate Winslet, Tim Burton, Jack Black, Reese Witherspoon, Vincent Price
Favorite Directors:
Christopher Guest, Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan, M.Night Shyamalan, Guillermo Del Toro
Favorite Films:
The Abyss (1989), The Aviator (2004), Beetlejuice (1988),
Contact (1999), Cry-baby (1990), The Dark Crystal (1982),
The Dark Knight (2008),
Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Dummy,
Edward Scissorhands (1990),
Election (1999), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Event Horizon (1994), Everything Is Illuminated (2005),
Ferris Buller (1986),
Flight of the Navigator, The Great Dictator (1940),
Great Expectations (1998),
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994),
The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002),
Labyrinth (1986),
Legally Blonde (2001),
Modern Times (1936),
The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Notebook (2004), The Phantom (1996),
Pleasantville (1998), The Prestige (2006),
The Princess Bride (1987),
The Professional (1994),
Project X (1987), The Puffy Chair (2005),
Puppy (2005),
Quills (2000), Raizing Arizona (1987),
Romeo and Juliet (1996),
Short Circuit, Signs (2002),
Sleepy Hollow (1999), Spiderman (2002),
Star Wars (1977),
Starship Troopers (1997), Total Eclipse (1995), Unbreakable (2000),
The Village (2004),
Wicker Park (2004),
Wallace and Gromit, Walk the Line (2005), What the Bleep Do We Know? (2004), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Favorite Books:
God Bless the Gargoyles - by Dav Pilkey
The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned - by Ann Rice
The Scarlet Letter - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - by Robert C. O'Brian
Lee Silber's books for Creative People
The Monster at the End of this Book - by Joe Stone
Love Story - by Erich Segal
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
The Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg
The Invention of Hugo Cabret - by Brian Selznick
The Table Where Rich People Sit - by Byrd Baylor
Harold and the Purple Crayon - by Crockett Johnson
The Giving Tree - by Shel Silverstein
Favorite Writers:
Chris VanAllsburg, Ruth Chew, Lee Silber, Shakespeare, Steve Martin
Favorite TV Shows & Web Series:
30 Rock, Arrested Development, Californication, The Colbert Report, Dark Angel, The First 48, Fraggle Rock, InfoMania, The Jon Stewart Show, Mythbusters, Perry Mason, Roswell, Samurai Jack, Samurai Champloo, CSI, Sealab 2021, Stargate SG-1, Weeds, The X-Files
Music:
Alanis Morissette, The Beatles, The Bobs, Barenaked Ladies, Blue October, Georges Bizet's Carmen, Blossom Dearie, Charlie Chaplin, Coldplay, The Cure, David Garza, Depeche Mode, Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, Ella Fitzgerald, Everything But the Girl, Jeff Buckley, Journey, Lisa Loeb, Madonna, Material Issue, Modest Mouse, The Monkees, Nine Inch Nails, Outkast, Paul Simon, Pink Floyd, Q-tip, Radiohead, The Roots, Sting and The Police, Tenacious D, Tom Petty, U2, Vampire Weekend, Weezer, The White Stripes, Willie Nelson
Influences:
Henry David Thoreau, Drew Barrymore, Vincent Van Gogh, Madonna, Reese Witherspoon, Entertainment Tonight, Chris Van Allsburg, Travis Tyre, Lisa Sauce, my mother Cherie Bedford and my grandmother Ruth Sauce.
Favorite Quotations:
"If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul." ~Drew Barrymore
"The saddest thing I can think of is to get used to luxury." ~Charlie Chaplin
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." ~Benjamin Franklin
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." ~Albert Einstein
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." ~Albert Einstein
"Y'ain't a kid 'less ya eat a little durt!" ~My Grandfather
"Oh hell, Ruthie... why don't you shut the god damn hell up?" ~My Other Grandfather
