Geoffrey Rush
Australian actor
The constant touchstone for me has been the Lecoq school and the mask work and clowning in Queensland
Which writers or artists most influenced your work?
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Very much, because he’s interested in that same kind of process. Bonnard, Matisse, Indian miniature paintings, which he collected. That’s where the light comes from, a spectral relationship within the painting itself.
Academy of Achievement interview, Sacramento, California, 27 May 2011 source ↗
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Lynn Nottage
Playwright; twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Well absolutely Sondheim was an influence, because he was in many ways this door into the world of theater and he is a phenomenal composer. He’s also a phenomenal mentor.
Jia Tolentino
Writer
I wrote while listening to Caribou, Kamasi Washington, Frank Ocean, Mitski. Towards the end, a lot of Talk Talk.
David McCullough
Historian and biographer; twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize
We had the classics, published by Scribners, all the great stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and the rest which were illustrated by the great N.C. Wyeth. In those days, when childhood diseases were extended, you were home with the measles or mumps or chicken pox for two or three weeks at a time, and you were supposed to stay in bed. There wasn’t any television, there wasn’t much to do, so I would stare at those paintings in those books by the hour. I didn’t read them all. I loved to just look at those pictures and study every detail. I could sit down and draw most of those pictures right now without having to refresh my memory because they were so exciting to me.
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