Terry Teachout Quotes

I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.

I just love the black and white movies.

I watch television all the time, mostly PBS and old movies like 'The Quiet Man,' my favorite Wayne movie. It's marvelous. I just loved the man and still do.

If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

My mom loved the old black-and-white films.

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.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

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

When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.

My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

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

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

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.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

The '90s will be looked back on as ushering in an era of comfort.

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

Coming from where I came from, the Midwest, in the era I was born, the '30s, movies were glorious fun - Bette Davis dying or whatever. But whatever they were, they were not serious.