Quotes About Nostalgia

Everybody growing up where I came from that was the designer shoe. Nobody had Balenciaga's and all the stuff that we walk around in now. If you had Jordans, that was like a prize basically.

We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.

I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.

My story sort of sounds ridiculous because the first movie I produced was 'E.T.'

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me.

The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high school production of Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit,' which seemed to me absolutely magical.

I go to many different places many times, but I miss my house constantly.

When I was growing up, there were 13 children - it was different times then.

Ive never had a perm; I used to have it straightened with a hot comb, back in my 'A Different World' days.

Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, but we go for comfort.

When I was working, there was no digital. We actually worked; we used Polaroids.

I like diner coffee.

I always wanted to make a coming-of-age film, or something about growing up, like 'The Wonder Years,' 'Stand By Me' or 'Diner.'

Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.

When I was nine or 10, I remember having a dinner party at my mum and dad's house. I wanted to have a Thanksgiving dinner because I'd watched so many films that had Thanksgiving in it and I thought: 'Why do we not celebrate this?' So I cooked this big Thanksgiving dinner for probably 10 people and I wouldn't let anybody help me.

I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing.

We have been called old rockers, rock pensioners, and dinosaurs.

One of my favorite guys when I was young... I've always loved Bill Cosby. I've always wanted to direct him in something.

I directed my music to the teen-agers. I was 30 years old when I did 'Maybellene.' My school days had long been over when I did 'School Day,' but I was thinking of them.

Zayn's good to just sit down and chat to about pretty much anything. At the end of the night, we just sit around and talk about our life before One Direction, or anything at all, really.

When I was a kid, all I knew was that I felt more comfortable sitting in one chair than in another. And now I realize it was because one chair was older. I still respond directly to the age of things.

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.