"I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films"
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The line’s real engine is the pivot from “myself” to “my family,” especially “my father.” That’s not random sentimentality; it’s a move that reframes cinephilia as something handed down, not performed. Scorsese becomes intergenerational bonding, a father-son ritual that legitimizes Hall’s relationship to gritty, adult cinema even if many people still tag him with the glossy teen-culture stamp of the 1980s. It’s subtle career repositioning: a former Brat Pack face signaling seriousness by invoking the patron saint of morally complicated men.
The phrasing also matters: “the obvious answer” telegraphs media-training ease while pretending to shrug off calculation. It implies he’s been asked this before - or expects to be - and wants the response to feel inevitable, not curated. Contextually, it’s a familiar actor move: locate your sensibility in a place (New York) and a canon (Scorsese) so your choices seem rooted, coherent, almost fated. In a culture that rewards “authentic” backstory, Hall offers one that’s plausible, compact, and instantly legible.
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Hall, Anthony Michael. (2026, January 17). I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-the-obvious-answer-is-i-was-raised-in-new-38999/
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Hall, Anthony Michael. "I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-the-obvious-answer-is-i-was-raised-in-new-38999/.
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"I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-the-obvious-answer-is-i-was-raised-in-new-38999/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
