Jessica Hagedorn Quotes

As a child I liked to watch movies. As a young man I wanted to work in films.

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

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

I grew up watching a lot of film.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

If you love movies, then you love America.

I loved movies ever since I was a kid.

When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.

You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Growing up, we had folk records.

Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

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

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

I grew up going to movies. My daddy was the projectionist, so we got in for free.

I guess it the one consistent thing in my life was that sense of magic that film provide - I still remember the movies from my childhood that I loved.

Movies are very, very good to me; What do I need TV for?

I have been watching Hollywood films from childhood.

I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a kid, there wasn't a lot to do. It was fairly boring, and I think the way I either escaped the boredom or found a way to keep myself occupied was through movies and TV shows.

Movies play a very important part in my life and I think the most number of films are made in India.

After I began in elementary school, I was able to go to the movies, and that was how I would spend my weekends, watching several movies one after another and almost all of them American movies. This is how I fell in love, at so young an age, with American movies and culture.

It's weird because I grew up in this town, so the things I really dug, I was constantly around them. Like Alyssa Milano - I had the biggest crush on her from TV, but I also saw her around town at parties. It's just funny.