Physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the invention of the maser and laser
Most scientists do. Of course there are the classical figures. I might talk about Einstein a little bit, for example.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1991
The Art of Fiction
The Paris Review, put to novelists and poets
3 questions, 151 answers to them so far. Every one of them is asked here as itself, with the format it came from on the page. Nobody answers as anybody else.
Which writers or artists most influenced your work?
Film director, screenwriter and painter
I don’t know if that is true. There have been 110 or more years of cinema, and it’s impossible for any one of us to make a film that can’t be compared to something that has come before.
Recorded · The Talks · 2014
Filmmaker and deep-sea explorer
The films that influenced me were so disparate that there’s almost no pattern. Stanley Kubrick was an influence because I loved 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1999
Every question in this set
- How does a new work begin for you? 63
- How much rewriting or revision do you do? 46
- Which writers or artists most influenced your work? 42
The number is how many answers are on the record here. A dash means nobody has answered it yet, which is an opening rather than a gap.