Zawe Ashton Quotes

First off, from reading the script and knowing that I was going to be apart of it, I'm a huge 'Wizard of Oz' fan so to be involved in something that was connected to the original books was really exciting for me and it was very different than anything I had ever worked on before.

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

'The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

'The Master' with Joaquin Phoenix puts up a good fight, but my favorite movie of all time is 'The Wizard of Oz.' I just love it. I watched it over and over again as a child, and I think it has all the elements of wonder, and it's a beautiful story.

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

One year, my family and I dressed up in the theme of 'Wizard of Oz' for Halloween. We all went as the different characters. I was the Tin Man!

I was obsessed with 'The Wizard of Oz.'

My mum took me to see 'The Wizard of Oz' when I was about three and I was blown away.

If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

I loved 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, too.

A great deal of my mail comes from fans of the 'Oz' picture - fans of all ages. The scholarly, the curious, the disbelievers write and ask how? why? when? what for? did you fly? melt? scream? cackle? appear? disappear? produce? sky-write? deal with monkeys? etc., etc., etc.

Follow the yellow brick road.

I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

Frank Baum knew at once he had written something special when he completed 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'

My favourite books series as a young child was the Frank L. Baum 'Wizard of Oz' series. They were beautifully written, oversized fat books with wonderful type and illustrations.

Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was a kind of astonishment that I could meet someone who was so deeply embedded in the psyche of my artistic development.

I was born and raised on 'Singin' in the Rain.' It's in my work. It's in me.

It's very lucky when you have an artist - whether it's a novelist or a filmmaker or a singer - whose career you can follow from the beginning and feel that you are in some way part of it, or part of the same world that it comes out of.

I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and why do you seek me?

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.