Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes

It's easier to get an actor when you just ask them to do a day on something rather than have them come in, audition, get picked.

Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on, and it just become a part or was a part, was the only part of my life because I spent my whole childhood traveling and being on film sets.

You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.

I have a wonderful assistant. I tell her I need four amputees and a midget, and she finds them.

My mum was massively important to everything I've done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me.

My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance.

My dad served 21 years and my mom did 13, so through that process, they taught me that I always have to give back.

My earliest musical memory was getting to watch my dad play drums in a local band. He's a banker by trade, but a drummer at heart. I remember seeing the guitar player do the solo from "Werewolves of London" with his teeth, and that was the moment that had me hooked.

I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows how hard I tried to civilize her so as not to have to blush with shame when I take her anywhere. I dressed her in the most stylish Paris models, but Delancey Street sticks out from every inch of her. Whenever she opens her mouth, I'm done for. You fellows had your chance to rise in the world because a man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

I think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind of a soft-spoken, understated sense of humor, I think that's how I became what I am, which is sort of an understated storyteller.

I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.

My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.

My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

I'm proud to be Archie's son. Being a quarterback, I had my mentor and hero living in the same house.

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.

I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.

I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.