William Goldman Quotes

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

I can't stop watching black and white movies. I live in a world of Warner Brothers movies and all of that stuff from an older era, and I love them. I still love them. When I look at them, I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland.

When I was a kid, I used to watch all those Sunday afternoon matinees featuring all the Hollywood greats.

I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.

My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies.

I grew up in this tiny town in Rhode Island, and we didn't have cable. We had three TV stations, and one of them would play old movies. That's what I would watch, and I always wanted to be, like, Myrna Loy in 'The Thin Man.'

I'm a big fan of old Hollywood.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.

But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

I grew up on films.

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.

I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.

You have to go back to the '30s and '40s to see a film that's any good.

My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.

Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I'm a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic - they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.

I love 'Bringing Up Baby.' Anything that Katharine Hepburn's in. I'm committed to the Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn era of filmmaking.