Short List of Writers, Filmmakers and Cartoonists Who Have Served as Major Influences:

 

Russell Banks (my mentor at Columbia University)

Ingmar Bergman

Charles Dickens

William Faulkner

Jules Feiffer

Federico Fellini

Nikolai Gogol

Gunter Grass

James Joyce

Akira Kurosawa

Vladimir Nabokov

Max Ophuls

Michael Powell

Marcel Proust

Ishmael Reed (my mentor at the University of California at Berkeley)

Charles M. Schulz

Robert Sheckley

Mark Twain

Kurt Vonnegut

Wong Kar-wai

 

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