Born Quote by Sydney Pollack

I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and…

— Brad Pitt

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

— Hunter Parrish

I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region…

— Taylor Sheridan

I didn't really grow up watching a lot of films. I grew up in the middle of Texas in a very rural area, so…

— Tye Sheridan

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

— Mary Meeker

The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so…

— Willem Dafoe

I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up…

— Jason Reitman

I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents…

— Joey Lauren Adams

Coming from where I came from, the Midwest, in the era I was born, the '30s, movies were glorious fun - Bette Davis dying…

— William Goldman

I spent my childhood all over the country. In certain parts where I grew up, films were this fantasy world.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted…

— L'Wren Scott

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.

— Ryan Murphy