About the Artist :: Inspirations
Books/Stories and Authors
William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying), Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist, Bleak House), Gregory McGuire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West), Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado), Stephen King (The Talisman, The Green Mile, Desperation), J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter), Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye), Angela Carter (The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman), and others.
Television and Screenwriters/Producers/Directors
Greg Berlanti (Everwood, Jack & Bobby, Brothers and Sisters), Eric Kripke (Supernatural), Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars), Jane Espenson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, Gilmore Girls), Joss Whedon (Roseanne, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse), Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls), James Manos Jr. (Dexter), Vanessa Taylor (Everwood, Jack & Bobby), Liz Tigelaar (Life Unexpected), Rina Mimoun (Everwood, Gilmore Girls, Pushing Daisies), Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me, Heroes), Bonnie and Terry Turner (3rd Rock from the Sun), and others.
Movies and Screenwriters/Producers/Directors
Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3), Riwia Brown and Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors), Steven Zaillian (Searching for Bobby Fischer), Yimou Zhang (Hero), Joss Whedon (Serenity, Toy Story), Christine Olsen (Rabbit-Proof Fence), and others.
Music
The Killers, The Beatles, Five for Fighting, Remy Zero, Norah Jones, Billy Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Andy Poxon, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, and others, including my own musically inclined family members – especially my dad.