I recently completed the first draft of a featurelength script I've been writing. I've written many scripts prior to this but they were often far from featurelength, used only for YouTube videos, or poor quality so never filmed. This is my first script that I feel confident to send out to others.

The things listed had different inspirations on me, some were direct inspirations for the entire project. Others inspired just a couple of aspects. Others were merely just referenced.

As well as films, I had many other inspirations, like:

Books -
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai

Historical Figures -
Emperor Moctezuma II of the Aztecs
Friedrich Nietzsche

Directors -
Andrei Tarkovsky
Ingmar Bergman
Béla Tarr
Yasujiro Ozu
David Lynch
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

I listened to many songs from various film soundtracks whilst writing, including music from: Paprika, Wonder Woman, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Handmaiden, Dunkirk, Possession, Battle Royale, Moonlight, Inherent Vice, Chungking Express, American Graffiti, Werckmeister Harmonies, The Turin Horse, Only God Forgives, Akira, The Neon Demon, Ghost in the Shell (1995), Magnolia, Mommy and Perfect Blue.

Films sorted alphabetically.