Armistead Maupin Quotes

I spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies.

For a while, my favorite movie was 'Vertigo.' Everything in that movie was captivating to me.

I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny & Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don't know how much they liked me that day.

I've been a fan of noir films since I was in high school.

Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

I would have loved to have been in a Hitchcock movie.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies.

I guess being French, I love Hollywood. I love Hollywood movies. Joseph Mankiewicz's 'All About Eve.' 'Mildred Pierce.'

I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.

I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch movies - movies, movies, and more movies. My family used to make fun of me because I'd like every movie I saw.

I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies.

I'm a big Turner Classic Movies fanatic - I was really addicted for a while.

I absolutely love genre movies. When I was a kid, I was really impacted by genre films and cult classics.

I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don't pretend to be a connoisseur of films, no.

I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire.

I'm a huge fan of film and always have been.

I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?

I've probably spent a good year and half of my life watching movies. I love it. It was something I knew I'd be happy doing.

I'm a big Hitchcock fan, and I love anything by Almodovar.

You know 'The Shawshank Redemption?' I've seen that movie, like, 30 times or something. 'Dirty Harry,' too - I love that movie.