Finn Wolfhard Quotes

My dad, who is a screenwriter, showed me all these great movies. He showed me 'E.T.' when I was 2-years-old, and I just kind of progressed from there. It was also my brother. We'd always watch movies together, and he'd do these voices and he'd always want to do skits and he'd come up with stuff with me.

My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.

There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.

My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class.

I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning about something or other in the industry, so it was unglamourised and normalised for me from a very young age.

I watch a lot of movies. I've watched movies since I was a kid. My dad brought me to the theater once a week. Always - it was a must. So I think that influenced me a lot to be an actor.

USC has really developed my love for the cinema.

Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies.

I loved movies and watched a lot of them. But my father insisted that I get a good education before I joined the film industry.

I try and watch as many different films as I can because every film has something to offer.

My dad told me when I was very young, that I should not get married before 30. His only advice to me was to live my life.

Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life.

Cinema was always my passion and dream.

I grew up with 2 older brothers, the oldest of which was big into film. Hanging around him got me seeing so much good stuff at an early age. Maybe a 10-year-old should not be watching 'Boyz N the Hood' like 10 times in a row? I don't know. But it probably shaped me in some way.

I have only one passion in life - cinema.

To any child, the first occupations that are presented to you are your parents'. I was appealed to my dad's occupation from the get-go.

My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in ways I'm still discovering!

My dad's always been a coach and one of my coaches.

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

Growing up, my dad was the ultimate person for open-mindedness.

Whether that was in the Chepauk Stadium in Madras or at the Ilford Cricket School, there was a daily diet of cricket run by my dad. It was a hard school but he knew what he was doing. Everything I achieved was down to my dad.

One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: ‘I want to do that, too,’ and I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad.

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.