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My mom loved the old black-and-white films.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was 'The Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid.

My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies.

When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

I always wanted to make movies.