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Quotes About Drive-in

You know, 'Mad Max' and 'The Road Warrior' was part of my childhood, and that's why I'm so close to it. I remember seeing those movies at a drive-in theater with my parents when I was very young.
~ Jim Root
It was the drive-in restaurant, a product of the Great Depression's crimp on the free-wheeling lifestyle that had grown up around movie-happy Hollywood. Drive-ins sprouted in city parking lots and spread along highways and canyon drives.
~ Ray Kroc
When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
~ Forest Whitaker
'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.
~ Dennis Quaid
I think 'Death Race 2000' is a classic, but it's a classic from the 1970s, and I think it's a particular kind of drive-in-exploitation movie satire masterpiece, and it was very much a movie of its time.
~ Paul W. S. Anderson
I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.
~ Twyla Tharp
I can remember, as a child, the happy days of us all piling into the car and going to the drive-in. And that was a weekly routine for my father. He was a proud black man, and that all sort of vanished as America began to export jobs.
~ Susan Burton
Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
~ Orville Redenbacher
I retreated up the highway to a drive-in where I ate a torpedo sandwich.
~ Ross MacDonald
When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
~ Forest Whitaker
Ouch! And Marino goes down quicker than his Boonesfarm-infused sister in the back of my '68 Cutlass on our first date after watching 'Love Story' at the drive-in.
~ Dennis Miller
I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.
~ Brad Pitt
The Life—that feeling—The Life—the late 1940s early 1950s American Teenage Drive-In Life.
~ Tom Wolfe
Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.
~ Jimmy Buffett