Following my post about 'Network' below, you'll probably realise over time that most films I decide to watch or books I decide to read (mainly older ones) are linked to works I'm already influenced by (usually more contemporary ones), either by being something that influenced it or something referenced within. This is how I discover most new things, by branching out from other works and the interests of my favourite writers and directors and who inspired them. Although it does make me slightly cautious about not becoming too narrow minded in terms of my interest in genre or subject matter, I always know I'll find something interesting this way.
The works I'm interested usually lend themselves to this quite well anyway. I like reading social-satire novels, such as 'Less Than Zero' by Bret Easton Ellis or 'Survivor' by Chuck Palahniuk, and satire is always heavily linked by similarities to other satire as well as plenty of philosophy and psychology that I can then read up on. And film, particuarly independant film, tends to do the same by either heavily referencing literature/other film or by physically having them as background Mis en Scene. Two examples of this are Dostovesky's 'the Idiot' on Trevor's desk in 'the Machinist' and a nihalistic character reading Camus 'the Myth of Sisyphus' in 'Manic', both books I've gone on to read and love. (This is how I discovered both Analytical psychology and Existential philosophy a few years ago, my two main interests when it comes to human behaviour/beliefs).
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