Advent Quote by Colin MacInnes

As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme panic and…

— Tony Burgess

And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on…

— Gerald Scarfe

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it,…

— Florence Welch

I was raised on the classics - Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and others.

— John de Lancie

When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O…

— Damian Lewis

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

— Carrie Underwood

I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed…

— Agyness Deyn

Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood.

— Guillermo del Toro

The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me.

— Billy Squier

I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.

— Bebe Rexha

When I was a kid, it was a little bit exciting working with Peter Weir and Robin Williams, but that faded pretty quickly for…

— Robert Sean Leonard

When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

— Adrian Younge