Movie Influence Quotes

You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes.

I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.

Watching a Kirk Douglas movie, 'Young Man With A Horn,' made me want to be a trumpet player.

'Be Cool' was a defining movie for me.

I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies.

Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.

My mum raised me on 'On the Waterfront,' 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Rear Window.'

Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

I remember watching Wesley Snipes as Blade. I watched Michael Jai White as Spawn. I even watch Shaquille O'Neal as Steel. I felt like seeing a physical representation, a non-cartoon representation, affected me in a much different way.

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies.

The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them now, you see the development of character and the twists of plot; but essentially they told stories. My mother didn't go to the movies because of a religious promise she made early in her life, and I used to go to movies and come home and tell her the plots of those old Warner Brothers/James Cagney movies, the old romantic love stories. Through these movies that had real characters, I absorbed drama, sense of pacing, and plot.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.

I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.

'A Walk to Remember' was a huge movie for me. I thought Mandy Moore was the coolest thing that ever happened. And Shane West - man, did I have a crush on him.

I can't really remember my life without movies.

As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.

Polanski's 'Chinatown' is a film that I have purposefully and consciously imitated, but 'Vertigo' is one that has got into my bloodstream. Every time I reappraise things that I've done, the influence is there, time and time again.

If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.

Con Air' and all these movies were what made me want to get into film and if 'Crimson Tide' is on the television, that's me for the next two hours. I'm not leaving.

I was always interested in creative writing growing up. From junior high on, I was writing short stories. I also grew up watching movies. My father would take me to everything. Most weeks, I could open the paper having seen every movie listed.

What is the consequent effect on a society of beings looking for themselves in the myths on the screen? It's safe to say that they have failed us, but I can't help it... I love Movies.

From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.