Father Quote by Emma Thompson

Looking at magazines and being someone who wanted to act, as a kid, I was very much influenced by things I saw.

— Barbie Ferreira

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis,…

— Danzy Senna

I grew up watching Westerns.

— Anthony Hemingway

Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I…

— Christine Lakin

West Side Story' was a very integral part of my upbringing. It was the first time I had seen my culture represented in any…

— Rachel Zegler

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

— Michael Moorcock

When I was younger and I did West End shows like 'Les Mis,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'Chitty,' I was blissfully ignorant - it was…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were…

— Steve Kanaly

I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies.

— Ruskin Bond

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

— Sam Mendes

I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

— Patrick deWitt

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

— George Pelecanos