Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.

I've learned that you never have to think about how to make money. You need only to focus on what you think is going to be a good movie or what's a movie I'd like to watch as the audience.

I spent a lot of time on film sets with my dad at work, and as a kid, that's a very appealing thing, to watch grownups get to play dress-up and pretend that they're different people - and then get paid for it!

My father was a director and producer, so when I was a little kid, he would take me to movies and show me what's good and what's not good and why, and often that would take me to a conversation about directing.

My mom's a screenwriter, and before that, she was an actress, and my father was an actor; my stepfather was a director, so I was on sets a lot as a kid. I loved the magic of the set. You walk in, and it's a living room, and you walk outside, and it's just a piece of wood held up by another piece of wood.

Coming from a filmy background, I have seen everything growing up, but even at that point of time, it never really fascinated me. I did not like going to my dad's shoots. We were taught not to get carried away with it from a very young age.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

I had no interest in filming. I sometimes went to the studios with my dad, but it was slow-going; it was boring to watch. I always ended up in the rehearsal hall watching the dancing. That's what I liked to do.

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show.

I've been on sets my whole life.

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on, and it just become a part or was a part, was the only part of my life because I spent my whole childhood traveling and being on film sets.

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

Most of the time, I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know it's nothing. It's a job. Sometimes, I try something different, and I'll watch out of curiosity. Generally, I don't watch too much of what I do. Movies are basically the same, except it's more money spent on sets.

I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.

I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.

I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up.