Akira Quote by Thomas Pynchon

His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the ’80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly…

— Lou Lumenick

I took a lot of influences from Studio Ghibli, which is the Japanese animation studio that made 'Spirited Away' and 'Castle in the Sky.'…

— Jamie Hewlett

I must say when I was a kid, before I got introduced to Brando and De Niro or any of those, it was Gene…

— David Morrissey

I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai to 'Conan.'

— Jason Momoa

I never directly think of certain films. I know I am influenced by all the films I see.

— Tom Six

Films like 'The Godfather,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Klute,' 'Chinatown,' 'Network,' and 'The Parallax View': They were drawn from the genre tradition, but they dressed down…

— Todd Haynes

There was a manga boom, so I read 'Astro Boy,' 'Osomatsu-kun,' and such. But what influenced me the most were things like 'Popeye' and…

— Akira Toriyama

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films…

— Frank Darabont

“The film is an iconic pop-culture creation and touches a bazillion filmgoers to their very core. It can also be very useful. Useful? What…

— Olivia Munn

Making realistic films is basically about the style.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come…

— John Lasseter

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

— James Cameron