Quotes About Nostalgia

I like the old-school muscle cars.

I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, loving comic books, and they were much cartoonier. And then everything became super dark and muscular and airbrushed, and I stopped collecting comics.

In the '70s, as a kid, someone took me to a Tournee of Animation festival at the L.A. County Museum of Art.

I look back and can't believe it sometimes. I have to go to the Derby Museum to see what I really accomplished.

I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.

I'm more inclined towards old churches and dusty museums.

I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.

For me, a lot of my fondest memories of being in the music business were being in the studio with The Doobs and being part of that organization and being a part of that music.

Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood.

The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.

I grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.

In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.

Reuniting with my brothers musically has been really incredible.

I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.

My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.

I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' was my favorite for me to be in because it was all dancing. There were other musicals that I made with Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly that were wonderful pictures, and we had a lot of fun making them.

My grandmother introduced me to musicals and Fred Astaire and Cary Grant and all the American comedies and classics.

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.

I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

In the Depression, big musicals made a comeback.