When I was a kid I really loved Humphrey Bogart. But when I was in theater school, Robert DeNiro was my go-to guy.
My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.
Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.
When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade.
Legends have composed music for Ambareesh anna's films during his illustrious career and it is a great honor to be able to do it for him in 'Ambi Ning Vysaitho,' as it is his film and doesn't just have him as a supporting actor.
Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen and politicians.
I was in awe of Robert Osborne, the man, and his incredible talent. Like everyone else, I loved watching him introduce classic films on TCM. But I was fortunate to also get to know him in real life by spending time with him and being interviewed by him over the years at events around the country.
I have always considered Amitabh Bachchan God. There is no other word to describe him.
I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
(On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic."
Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'
I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.
Steve Buscemi is the little black dress of cinema, appropriate for any occasion.
I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.
I was a big fan of Greta Garbo and that era of movies, so I dreamt watching those movies.
There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.
I loved Keaton. In fact, when I made the chase sequence in 'What's Up, Doc,' I said, 'This is a Buster Keaton chase.'
It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.
Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
I love Audrey Hepburn.
