Jon Favreau Quotes

In black culture, you know, we used to go swing dancing. We used to go out to go dance and actually have fun.

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.

Tap dancing is something I love, and I've been working on it to get really good.

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.

Swing is my favorite kind of music.

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

I was always looking at footage of dancers from Nicholas Brothers to Ralph Brown to Sand Man to Miller Brothers and Lois, and I grew up looking at old footage.

Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited.

I love parties. I love a good time.

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.

I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.