Jon M. Chu Quotes

I've loved movies since I could remember. They were literally the most significant thing in my life as a kid. I'm really lucky that I've felt so inspired by them; they're such a good format to tell a story.

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

When I was younger, I liked writing stories and watching younger actors on TV.

I had been an abject fan of Martin and Lewis when I was a kid. I just thought they were terribly funny. None of their movies captured the kind of chemistry they really had.

I don't get too much enjoyment out of sitting around the campfire and looking at old photos. That's just not me. I don't get the thrill of doing that. So, I don't sit around listening to my old records.

Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.

There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

I grew up watching a lot of film.

I started re-reading 'Harry Potter' just to throw myself back into my childhood. I forgot how awesome the books are.

I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a kid, there wasn't a lot to do. It was fairly boring, and I think the way I either escaped the boredom or found a way to keep myself occupied was through movies and TV shows.

To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, who perhaps shout 'Tottigol,' I'd like to think that, for you, my career has become a fairytale for you to pass on.

I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.

I'm so attached to Patsy and her crew, and to the adventures we've taken them on.

I have so many special memories from the camps I went to when I was growing up.

I grew up without TV, I grew up listening to radio, I grew up reading.

As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh.

I spent a lot of time alone when I was a kid, I climbed trees, hopped creek beds, read, watched movies, I'd make stories, make films.

Getting a laugh was what I'd been doing with my family and at school since the age of three.

I love Disney.

I was the world's worst Brownie and Girl Guide and I never did camping.

My love was always in books. I was just one of those avid readers. Films came later, but the stories were always present.