“I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.”
| Wally Amos, Businessman (1936) |
| James M. Cain, Novelist (1892) |
| Mary Calderone, Scientist (1904) |
| Leslie Caron, Actress (1931) |
| Missy Elliot, Musician (1971) |
| Jamie Farr, Actor (1934) |
| Joseph Hall, Clergyman (1574) |
| Lawrence Halprin, Architect (1916) |
| Debbie Harry, Musician (1945) |
| Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian (1854) |
| Peter Barnes, Playwright (2004) |
| Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Writer (1961) |
| Wolfman Jack, Entertainer (1995) |
| Michael Landon, Actor (1991) |