Quotes About Influence

I came to the cinema industry to become a director from the inspiration of Guru Dutt and Shantaram.

I want to be the Guru Dutt of the world.

Jazzmatazz' was Guru's thing, but Gang Starr was his baby. I don't care what anybody says. That dude loved Gang Starr.

Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.

I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up.

People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.

Mac Dre has been around a long time. E-40's been around a long time. JT the Bigga Figga, Rappin 4-Tay. There's been a lot of guys that been around a long time, but they all grew up listening to Too $hort.

I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

The best part is when parents come up to me with their kids, and they say, 'My daughter started gymnastics because of you.'

I learned mainly by listening to Andres Segovia and that was a great inspiration. And also the gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.

It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

I wonder sometimes if I've got in the habit of only being courageous when someone else has written the words I have to say.

When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.

Many things influence a person's eating habits. Knowledge of what is considered healthy and what is not would be one, but I doubt it would make it to the top of the list.

Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits.

There's nothing more damning in life than a child calmly and coldly saying, 'Are you aware that you're teaching me bad habits?'

Bad habits can easily be formed when you're younger.

The country has had enough of the Clintons and the Bushes.

Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.

I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.

One of the worst. I can't begin to explain... I literally ask them all the time, 'Why doesn't Will, maybe he shaves his head?' But really, did everyone have that haircut in the '80s? Who would choose to have that haircut?

People looked at my early pictures and called them the most disgusting things ever, and now 'Hairspray' is being done at every school in Britain and America.