“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.” YearsFilmActorsFatherLeftCompanySixSevenUniversityReliefWakingDocumentariesSeven YearsDocumentary Films Author:Sam Neill
“My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.” TwoFilmMotherActorsFatherSawsFourWeekGrandfatherMy GrandfatherBegging Author:Giovanni Ribisi
“I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.” DoneKidsFilmYoungFatherGivenBlackCareersWatchesHavensSonTypeConceptsPartnershipSuperheroFather SonFather And Son Author:Blair Underwood
“My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.” FirstsFilmFoundFatherChangedCriticismCriticsEngineersAssistantsChanged My LifeStanfordFilm Critics Author:Roger Corman
“We're travelling through space and time, we're dealing with gods and monsters, but at the heart of the film, from my perspective, is a family - a father, two sons, two brothers, a mother and the fractious, intimate interaction that they have.” HeartTwoFilmMotherFatherSpaceSonBrotherPerspectiveMonstersIntimateInteractionTime And SpaceTwo BrothersGods And Monsters Author:Tom Hiddleston
“When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.” WayFilmFatherGrowsGrowing UpIndustryDirectorsFilm Industry Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film -- as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?” ThinkingFilmPoliticalFatherLiteraturePossibilityCommitmentOrganizationSupportiveEvaluate Book:Civil Wars Source: Civil Wars