Patrick Kavanagh Quotes

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.

As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

When I was really young, I got moonstruck by 'Moonstruck.'

I lived in those old movie houses as a kid. I just loved them. What total escapism for someone.

When I was a little girl, I watched old movies maybe shot at Paramount Studios, and the fact that every day I get to drive onto the lot and shoot a show that sometimes takes place in the '40s, it's very interesting.

I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that's just anachronistic and probably a non-reality.

As a kid, I grew up watching movies in the cinema, so that dream and charm will never die.

I grew up watching 'Gigi.' My grandmother had it, and I watched it there.

Since the time I was a kid, I used to love big films.

That's the time I remember as a kid, being so excited to go to the movies. To be part of that now is really an amazing gift.

I fell in love with 'Ben Hur' when I was 8 years old, and I just knew I had to be involved in movies, even if I was the guy who melted the butter on the popcorn.

My first love will always be movies.

The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

I don't miss film projecting. I always hated it.

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

I grew up going to movies. My daddy was the projectionist, so we got in for free.

Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.

I'm proud to have been in some of the films that continue to be a special part of people's lives.

I grew up in Sacramento and spent a lot of time in the Saturday matinee. I just thought, 'Wow.' It's that magic of sitting in a dark theater as a little kid. That was in the '50s.