Patrick Whitesell Quotes

I know what it's like to have a young child at the weekend and feel like there is nothing to see in the movie theatre. Family is so important.

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.

My kids are old enough now that they can watch that, but I like to do the family movies.

Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

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.

One should be able to take the whole family along to watch a film.

Our kids seldom even get to see a movie. When we go to a movie, it's an event - and we make it an event.

But TV and movie schedules are always easier than a theater schedule, if you have a family.

I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.

Where I'm from, in the middle of the country, there were no clubs or parties. You had to make your own fun.

I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.

It's a great thing because I've said to my lad, 'What do you want to do today - football, shopping, playing a game?' and he says, 'I want to bake with you, Dad.' And he loves it, baking with me.

I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.

I'm a country guy from a small town, you know, and it comes across as real because it is.

Neverending Story' was one movie I did see when I was a kid. On the little island I grew up on, they put up a sheet in the town hall.

Personally, I'm a fan of comedy movies that I can watch with my friends and family.

I grew up with a sister and a younger brother in a house where every evening was spent performing a dance routine in front of our parents with my sister.

There is something about being in a remote town where anything other than green fields, trees and Saturday football club is very exciting and thrilling.

I would rather be the only horse in a one-horse town than be the third horse in a big city.

Movies are a big thing in our house. Every Friday, we do family pizza night, and we make pizza from scratch, and then we sit down and watch a movie.

Growing up in a small town in upstate New York, some of the first real friendships I had were in chat rooms.

And there is no finer moment, when I sit in a screening, and the parents and the kids are all laughing at the same gag.

I still remember how me and my husband spent 30 minutes trying to convince our then 10 and 12 year old son and daughter that they really would love this black and white movie called, 'It's a Wonderful Life'.

I didn't live in L.A. I lived in Oklahoma, and I liked to do normal things with normal people.

I grew up in a small town.