Quotes About Inspiration

I first knew I wanted to be a mom when my sister Kathy had her first baby, Paris. She was so beautiful and sweet.

When I was in 8th grade, I saw Branagh's 'Henry V' in the Paris Theater, and it changed my life.

I love Paris.

I've been fortunate to have been in Paris a dozen times, where I've gone to the Louvre. I'm very big on Impressionistic paintings.

I truly think you can get a great meal in most cities around the world now. I credit the internet for making it possible for a kid in Iowa to see what a great chef in Paris is doing and emulate it.

A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

For me, being 10 years old and seeing 'Jurassic Park' for the first time blew my mind. I want music to feel like that.

I love Griffith Park.

'Jurassic Park' is probably the movie that got me wanting to make movies. It's fun, but it's not totally gruesome.

I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I don't believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.

You just have to have a song that you're desperate to play along to, and for me it was 'Turn' by the Scottish band Travis. I went to see them headline the Scottish T in the Park Festival, so after that festival, I went home and taught myself all of the Travis back catalog with an old guitar and a little chord book.

The elementary school I went to, Valencia Park, was focused on the arts.

Ultimately, I would love to do 'The Emperor of Ocean Park' by Stephen Carter.

Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true 'Jurassic Park' fan.

What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

I was one of the first artists to make a buzz about '106 & Park.' If it wasn't for that show, I wouldn't be the entertainer that I am today.

I don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just kind of write in a park, on a bench, in the library, in a cafe, back to the library, that kind of thing.

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

I applied everything that I could muster creatively to this mission to find a way to create a new 'Jurassic Park' movie for a new generation.

When I was a kid, I was hugely impacted by 'Jurassic Park.' I think I was just the right age when that movie came out, and I remember running around my town like a Velociraptor.