Beverly Cleary Quotes

I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.

Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.

'The Princess Bride' was a movie that I watched all the time.

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film.

I grew up with action movies in my head.

We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'

I have been brought up watching the 'Rocky' series and 'First Blood' series. I am obviously a big fan of Sylvester Stallone.

So many of Spielberg's films inspired my imagination growing up. And then there are British films like 'The Full Monty' and 'Waking Ned Devine' that took me to places I really loved, with characters I just thought were amazing. But the films of Luc Besson showed me France - a really cool side of France.

One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original 'Road Warrior.' And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: 'The Terminator' and 'Die Hard' and, of course, all of the 'Star Wars' movies.

My first movie was 'The Mask Of Zorro,' and that was all swords and horses and swashbuckling, and I thought, 'This is what movies are.' Obviously, I never made another one like that again; those are very rare.

When I was a little boy, there was no sound in the movies.

Growing up, I watched a lot of Shirley Temple movies.

I was a big fan of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

I always liked the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I still want to be Indiana Jones.

Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.

I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.

Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.

When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'

I can say is usually people are slightly confused. They think that silent movies are old. But, the fact is, they are old because they have been made in the '20s. That's the thing that makes them old. Not the format. The format is just a format. It's not an old format.

With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with my friends in my backyard during high school. It was terrible.