Gillian Armstrong Quotes

I wasn't a film kid.

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.

I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.

I've seen 'Fried Green Tomatoes' too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away.

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

Cinema was my rite of passage.

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

Television and I grew up together.

I can't really remember my life without movies.

If I rewind back to that period, I was 8 in 1977 when 'Star Wars' was in theaters. I saved up money, or my parents got me the 'Art of Star Wars' book.

'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!

When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the same time.

I didn't see many films until I was in college teaching.

I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

I'm all for streaming, and I do think it's thrilling that a gazillion people can see our film the day it drops. On the other hand, I'm a fierce believer of the theatergoing experience. My hope would be that films can be enjoyed in both ways, that there's room for both.

I remember going to the cinema to watch 'Blade Runner' when I was 14 or 15. It was a huge flop when it came out. The cinema was almost empty. I was blown away by it.

I didn't really discover 'Risky Business' until later in life because I was so young when it came out.

If I hear that a film of mine is going to be shown on a big screen somewhere and I haven't seen it in a while, I make a point to get to see it. I just want to see it up on the big screen.

I'm still a big believer in movie theaters, and going to see movies in public.

I used to hold Stanley Kubrick film festivals at my house in high school. These are not cool things.

I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.

Nosferatu' has a very close, magical connection for me.