As I have already said, dealing with theatre an televison direction means that you must have knowledge and interests in different artistic fields.
Yet, apart of my job, I enjoy in art during my free time, as well, and have some favorites.
Here's a short choice.
LITERATURE
Sophocles, William Shakespeare, F.M.Dostoyevsky, A.P.Chekhov, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, D.H.Lawrence, André Gide, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Julian Barnes.... etc.
MUSIC
Classical
Medieval and Rennesaince Music, J.S.Bach, W.A.Mozart, L.van Beethoven, G.Mahler, G.Verdi, I.Stravinsky, S.Prokofiev, S.Barber.... etc.
Serbian contemporary composers
Bozidar Obradinovic, Zoran Eric, Milan Mihajlovic, Anja Djordjevic, Isidora Zebeljan..... etc.
Classical music artists
Sviatoslav Richter, Arthur Rubinstein, Mikhail Pletnev, Ratimir Martinovic, Christoph Eschenbach, Bernard Heitink, Claudio Abbado, Georg Solti, Joshua Bell, Itzhak Perlman, Pierre Fournier, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Maria Callas, Cecilia Bartoli, Edita Gruberova, Teresa Stratas, Joan Sutherland, Anna Netrebko, Marilyn Horne, Janet Baker, Dietrich Fischer - Diskau, Thomas Hampson, Dmitri Hvorostovsky..... etc.
Rock-pop-jazz-alternative
The Doors, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Tow Waits, Ute Lemper, Marianne Faithfull, Everything But The Girl, Manhattan Transfer, Bobby McFerrin, Tiger Lillies, Gogol Bordello.....etc.
THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS
Theatre and Ballet Companies and Groups
Royal Shakespeare Company, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, The Glasgow Citizens Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre, Theatre de Complicite, Taganka Theatre, La Fura dels Baus, DV8 Physical Theatre, Yugoslav Drama Theatre (Belgrade), Nederlands Dance Theatre, The Hamburg Ballet, Cullberg Ballet.... etc.
Theatre directors and Choreographers
Peter Brook, Peter Stein, Luca Ronconi, Richard Schehner, Anatoli Efros, Yuri Lyubimov, Lev Dodin, Patrice Chéreau, Pina Bausch, Jiří Kylián, Mats Ek, Hans Neumeier.....etc.
FILM
Movie Directors
John Schlesinger, Ken Russel, Joseph Losey, David Lean, James Ivory, Stanley Kubrick, Lindsay Anderson, Stephen Frears, Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Alfred Hitchcock,.Elia Kazan, John Huston, Bob Fosse, Alan Parker, Martin Scorsese, Stephen Daldry, Ingmar Bergman, Gregg Araki, Gus Van Sant, Ang Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Fritz Lang, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Luis Bunuel, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Patrice Chéreau, François Ozon, Mathieu Kassovitz, Eytan Fox, Jiri Menzel, Milos Forman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Parajanov, Pedro Almodovar..... etc.
Movie Actors and Actresses
Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Jeremy Irons, Albert Finey, Anthony Perkins, Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery, Derek Jacoby, Peter Sellers, Terence Stamp, Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, Ewan McGregor, Christan Bale, Anthony Hopkins, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, Robert de Niro, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, Guy Pearce, Christopher Walken, William Hurt, Gérard Depardieu, Jérémie Renier, Stéphane Rideau, Javier Bardem, Gael Garsia Bernal, Judy Dench, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Meryl Streep, Shirley Mclane, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathleen Turner, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton..... etc.
ART
Italian Rennesaince sculptures, Rembrandt, Vermeer, French Impressionists, German and Russian Exspessionism, Andy Warhol..... etc.