“I think the audience is truly all ages: I don't put anything in there that kids can't see, or shouldn't see, but I have to keep it interesting for me as an adult” ThinkingKidsAgeInterestingAudienceAdults Author:Jeff Smith
“The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed, the children who are our future are good-looking, but they aren't all that bright. As dense as they might be, they will eventually notice that adults have spent all the money, spread disease, and turned the planet into a smoky, filthy ball of death. We're raising an entire generation of dumb, pissed-off kids who know where the handguns are kept. This is not a good recipe for a happy future.” IfsKnowsChildrenMightKidsGenerationsHavensPlanetsFutureDiseaseAdultsBallsSpreadDumbOur FutureRecipesLooking GoodDenseFilthyPissed OffHandguns Author:Scott Adams
“I like movies that work on two levels - like The Simpsons, kids can watch it and adults can watch it. Teenagers can watch Hostel and if they want to see a blood and guts violent movie they're going to have a great time. They're going to scream and yell, it's a great date movie because they're going to squeeze their date and their date is probably going to be too scared to go home... so you take them home and put on Dirty Dancing and everybody wins.” IfsWantTwoHomeKidsWinningLevelsWatchesBloodAdultsDancingScaredViolentTeenagerDirtyGutsScreamGreat TimesDate MovieViolent Movies Author:Eli Roth
“I'd say that kids working on sets, even if it's Bambi, need to be allowed to be kids, even if they're working, not become little adults - that to me can be distorting to kids as an experience.” IfsNeedsLittlesKidsAdults Author:Julia Ormond
“There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.” MeanLittlesKidsAdultsActressesLittle Kid Author:Anne Hathaway
“My dad and mom were more like World War II-era parents, even though it was the 1960s, because they were both born in the '40s. They were young adults before the '60s even happened, and married, and already having kids. But by the time we were adolescents in the '70s, the whole culture was screaming at parents, "You're a good parent if you're open with your kids about sex." They attempted to be open with us about sex, and it made them want to die, and consequently, it made us want to die.” IfsWorldWantMadeWarWholeKidsYoungDiesCultureSexParentBornHappenedMomDadMarriedAdultsMy DadYoung AdultErasWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War I1960sWanting To DieHaving KidsGood Parent Author:Dan Savage
“I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.” WayKidsRememberNightAdultsScaredBumpsBeing Scared Author:Alex Hirsch
“I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.” ThinkingKidsFeltParentAdultsTreatedCocky Author:Ezra Miller
“My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal.” ThinkingKidsGirlTheoryNormalTrainingAdultsGenderBiasGender Bias Author:Geena Davis
“You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers. You can play ball all day long. My kids used to try to get me out there, but I'd just say, "Go play with your brothers." If kids want to do something, they'll do it. They don't need adults to do it for them.” IfsWantNeedsTryingLittlesLongPlayKidsUsedFourBrotherCoupleAdultsBallsNinePlentyLeaguePitcherYour BrotherLittle League Author:Yogi Berra
“If you were a freak as a kid, you're an interesting adult.” IfsKidsInterestingAdultsFreak Author:John Fugelsang
“As a kid, my brother and I would read the same novel, we'd memorize entire pages, reenact the book as it's characters, and would immerse in playing like that for hours. I suppose it was a natural follow up, wanting to still play in a similar fashion, but as an adult.” StillsBookPlayCharacterKidsHoursNaturalNovelFashionBrotherPagesAdultsMy BrotherFollow Up Author:Irena A. Hoffman
“I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.” ThinkingTwoDifferentKidsUniverseProcessDifficultGrowing UpGrowingAdultsTeenagerDifferent Universes Author:Alice Hoffman
“I feel that in all kids that I've came across, that at the age of 12-13 is a big transition . They begin forming the Young Adult there going to become, here molding . I can't put a "name" on it but it's something. Your trying to find yourself, were getting ready to go to High School and as this world teaches you, you must "belong" to something. (So we Belong to Something)” WorldFeelsTryingI CanBigsKidsAgeSchoolYoungNamesTeachThis WorldReadyHigh SchoolAdultsYoung AdultFinding YourselfTransitionMolding Author:Richard Cabral
“I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.” KidsAbilityAchievePlanetsAdultsOur FutureKids Love Author:David Dinkins
“Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.” ThinkingKnowsTryingBelieveChildrenRealityKidsAgeGamesFantasyProtectSmartAdultsHolesTeethFairyEtcVoidSantaAlways TryingMake BelieveReally SmartTooth FairyProtecting Children Author:Shane Warren Jones
“I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.” IfsEnoughStoriesHappensKidsAgeAdultsAlways Believe Author:John Irving
“I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.” KidsPastFunWeekExampleSummerAdultsNineCamps Author:Wavy Gravy
“My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that experience of how to communicate with younger people, put that hand on them and give them that old-school feeling, the maturity and adult, a lot of our kids just need the feeling of that love, and that's the frame of reference that I teach from and that's the frame of reference that all of our musicians in the Jazz at Lincoln Center.” PeopleNeedsGivingFeelingsHandsKidsSchoolFatherCommunityTeachTeacherTaughtMusicianAdultsJazzWorkersCommunicateMaturityMamaOld SchoolFrame Of ReferenceLincoln Center Author:Wynton Marsalis
“It's always hard when you make a movie that's fundamentally about kids for adults. How do you make people aware of who the adult cast is without making them feel that the adults are the center of it? You don't want to make it misleading, but at the same time you want to make it appealing.” PeopleWantFeelsHardKidsAdultsCastsMislead Author:Scott Rudin
“We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent.” WorldChildrenKidsSexResponsibilityStruggleThis WorldCreatingAdultsDignityOur ChildrenSexualityHonestlyFallenConsent Author:Laurie Halse Anderson
“We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who are adults can't really lay their hands on us unless they want to be gay-bashers and go to jail. They abuse us from afar and in the abstract, they abuse us with checkbooks and ballots, but their kids go to school on Monday morning. And there's a gay kid. And they feel they have license to beat that gay kid up in a way that I don't think they did when I was in school. I think it's gotten worse.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFeelsKindWarHandsKidsSchoolCultureMorningGayBeatsAdultsAbuseLaysAbstractJailMondayLicenseBallotsGay PeopleAfarRoaringMonday MorningBashers Author:Dan Savage
“Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.” NeedsKidsDangerousAdultsWiser Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“One of the best things about reading comic books, when you're a kid or an adult, is watching the characters cross-over. What happens in one book affects the other, and these shows are so tightly knit that it feels like one giant show.” FeelsBookCharacterShowsHappensKidsReadingAdultsCrossesComicBest ThingsGiantsComic Book Author:Andrew Kreisberg
“I'm still trying to be a kid. I really don't want to feel like an adult.” WantFeelsTryingStillsKidsAdults Author:Gilbert Arenas
“We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that.” NeedsGivingKidsOrderQualityRiskStudentsAdventureAdultsCapacityTestsCuriosityInsightResilienceSurprisingNow And ThenIntroducingAutonomyFlexibleCompetentYouthfulness Author:John Taylor Gatto
“For every little kid who still believes in Santa Claus, there is at least one adult who still believes in professional wrestling.” BelieveLittlesStillsKidsAdultsWrestlingLittle KidSantaSanta ClausBelieve In SantaProfessional Wrestling Author:Doug Larson
“I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.” ThinkingIdeasKidsUnderstandingCapableAdultsTransgender Author:Jill Soloway
“When I'm writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, "What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be in the kitchen, or an adult would be in the kitchen, and they hear the theme song come on and it would draw them back to the other room so that they would watch the show?"” ThinkingWritingShowsWould BeKidsSongRoomsWatchesTvsDrawsAdultsKitchenThemeTv Shows Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“So when it came to making the movie I guess I had a really good sense innately of what it was that makes Halloween really great. In that it is a holiday for everybody now. When I was a kid I felt like it was mostly for kids, maybe that's just the way it always is when you're a kid, but I think now more than ever it's for grown ups too. When I was a kid I don't think there were quite as many sexy adult costumes and we definitely didn't have all these Spirit Halloween stores that pop up every October.” ThinkingWayKidsSpiritFeltAdultsSexyPopsStoresHolidayHalloweenReally GreatCostumesOctoberGood Sense Author:Michael Dougherty
“When I was a kid I think the thing I remembered most about The Exorcist was Linda Blair being possessed by the devil, and how scary that was. It had a lot of parallels for me because the movie was challenging different ideas about faith and it was looking at religion in a darker way. Growing up I was afraid of being possessed by the devil, as an adult I'm afraid of being possessed by the world, by ignorance, and not holding on to my beliefs and what I feel strongly about.” ThinkingWorldWayFeelsIdeasDifferentKidsBeliefChallengesGrowing UpGrowingIgnoranceDevilAdultsScaryRememberedPossessedParallelsHolding OnBlairDifferent IdeasExorcist Author:Marilyn Manson
“Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.” IfsWorldShouldChildrenMadeTwoKidsFilmFightingEvilDarknessStrangeSceneCreaturesAdultsScaryMonstersForestsDawnVillainNapsCurlsBenignDarkness Before The Dawn Author:Roger Ebert
“You dream that you want to be a monster maker when you grow up, and that's what happened. I refused to take no for an answer. I just was a very driven kid, who's now a very driven semi-adult.” WantDreamKidsGrowsAnswersGrowing UpHappenedAdultsDrivenMonstersMakers Author:Howard Berger
“Now it's fantastic, this is a medium that adults should be able to enjoy, it's not just for our kids. I feel like now with Adult Swim and all these different outlets for adults to enjoy animation, it's huge. I love being a part of it, absolutely love it.” FeelsShouldDifferentKidsAbleEnjoyLove IsHugeAdultsMediumsFantasticSwimAnimationOutlets Author:Rachael MacFarlane
“Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children.” ThinkingKnowsWayTryingChildrenSometimesKidsGivenBehindsPsychologyFiguresAdultsCraveJunkJunk Food Author:Zoe Lister-Jones
“It's the same challenge as with any other character, adults or not. You want to take time with the kids. You want to tell them in the audition that they have time to exchange ideas. I'm there. It's not someone else who does the audition, but I don't want to audition a thousand children.” WantChildrenDoeIdeasCharacterKidsChallengesThousandAdultsTake TimeAuditions Author:Philippe Falardeau
“The teacher will never be a parent. The parents are the parents. But they have to engage in some sort of active education beyond just teaching mathematics and French and English because the kids spend more time there than they do with their parents at that age. We have to accept that other adults will be part of our children's education and they will have bad teachers. That's going to happen.” ChildrenHappensKidsAgeParentAcceptingTeacherTeachingAdultsOur ChildrenMathematicsActiveMore TimeBad Teacher Author:Philippe Falardeau
“In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.” IfsShouldStoriesKidsOrderEvilAdultsScaryTriumphScareNo Point Author:Neil Gaiman
“No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesKidsFitConversationAdultsLogicalSpellsLittle Kid Author:Ornette Coleman
“When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.” WayFactsKidsFunTermStepsLove YouAdultsAnd LoveExcitingIndependenceProtectionTransition Author:Fernando Torres
“To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.” IfsStoriesRealityKidsYoungCultureGrowsParentBehindsMoralGrowing UpBedCreatingAdultsLettersMirrorsAlbumsAlternativesTeenagerThis DaySmarterDishonestyMattressesTentaclesMoral Of The Story Author:Jello Biafra
“So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people.” PeoplePersonsHelpingHappensKidsBreakAdults Author:Elvis Presley
“My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.” PeopleKnowsGivingKidsMotherStuffCrySonAdultsCancerReachingHospitalsReach OutGod KnowsVisiting Author:Mr. T
“This frenzy about cyberporn indicates some deeper fear of adults as they see kids become more independent and learn things they never learned. I think those fears also reflect a failure to communicate. Parents should be able to say to their kids: "There is stuff out there that we don't look at, and if you find yourself looking at it or someone approaching you about it, then let's talk about it."” IfsThinkingShouldLooksKidsAbleStuffParentAdultsIndependentCommunicateDeeperFinding YourselfFrenzy Author:Seymour Papert
“I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they work and what they do, and what they do often is more progressive. I would like to see a lot of kids of different ages, maybe even some adults, work together on a project.” ThinkingWayShouldMayDifferentKidsAgeSchoolTogetherProjectsAdultsOrganizedWorking TogetherProgressiveOften IsDifferent Ages Author:Seymour Papert
“We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others.” NeedsLooksLittlesEyeCareKidsEnergyParentCommunityTeachingAdultsBallsConsistentTallUnclesLittle KidAunt Author:Laurie Halse Anderson
“I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult. It's funny, because I was never big into autographs as a kid. The only player who I ever wanted an autograph from was Dave Winfield.” TryingFirstsBigsKidsWantedSuccessWinningPlayerAdultsAutographsDaveSigning Autographs Author:Derek Jeter
“I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town that's a "great places to raise kids" - that's basically code for "there are no adults here who are not parents." I had a few teachers who were kind of weirdo drama teachers and were hugely influential.” KindKidsParentTeacherGrewDramaGrew UpAdultsTownsRaisesCodeFortyInfluentialWeirdo Author:Meghan Daum
“I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.” MenBookKidsGrewLuckyGrew UpAdultsCheeseYardsPicture BooksStinkyYard Sale Author:Mac Barnett
“When you're a kid going on being an adult, everything radiates so deeply and resonates so passionately, and I like the opportunity to tell those stories.” StoriesKidsOpportunityAdults Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol