Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.
Lea ThompsonOf course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.
Lea ThompsonI love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.
Lea ThompsonMy mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.
Lea Thompson