“I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.” ChildrenI CanFilmActorsWonderfulUnhappyWonderful TimesChild Actors Author:Roddy McDowall
“Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsChildrenWholeFilmActorsFeltAdultsWhole LifeManageTransitionFilm SetChild Actors Author:Anna Popplewell
“The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.” ChildrenMadeIdeasDifferentFilmThreeSeriousWesternWideHonestlyGenre Author:John Landis
“Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.” ChildrenFilmCoursesCinemaMakers Author:Anthony Minghella
“When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.” WorldChildrenFilmCertainLike YouOur ChildrenYour Children Author:John Lasseter
“My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.” GivingChildrenLittlesBookFilmLyingLittle Time Author:Enid Blyton
“I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.” WantChildrenFilmIndependentBudgetsAspirationIndependent FilmIllegitimate Child Author:Duncan Jones
“Under the current system, all children under 17 are treated equally. However, while some films may be appropriate for older children to see with parental accompaniment, some are inappropriate for younger children under any circumstances. This problem needs to be addressed.” NeedsMayChildrenProblemFilmCircumstancesCurrentsTreatedAppropriateInappropriateParental Author:Rob Reiner
“I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.” ChildrenDreamFilmSixSixtyDisney Animation Author:Walt Disney
“Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.” ThinkingLooksMayChildrenHas BeensSometimesFilmFacesProcessChangedTelevisionInvolvedOffersFellowsSeriesChecksNovelistsCashInvitedNaiveTruckDumpStunnedPremieres Author:George R. R. Martin
“You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.” WritingKindChildrenRealStoriesFilmFoundNiceShort StoryDocumentariesFormatShort LoveShort FilmsDyslexicWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“Even as a child, when kids my age would watch cartoons, I preferred watching horror flicks. I had watched some Hollywood horror flicks and even films made by the Ramsay brothers by the time I was six! I have always been biased towards that genre.” ChildrenMadeKidsAgeFilmWatchesBrotherHorrorSixHollywoodGenreCartoonBiased Author:Emraan Hashmi
“As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical...it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.” ThinkingFeelsChildrenBigsFilmPartyEmotionLaughingCryLike YouSingingIndiaDancingCinema Author:Karan Johar
“Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity a poetic comedy that's really funny.” TryingChildrenEnoughFilmTurnsNaturalSimpleComedySeeingChildhoodSeriesResilienceThemePoeticGood EnoughNot Good EnoughRaritySmall Changes Book:When the lights go down Source: When the lights go down
“All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.” MenChildrenEyeRememberFilmYoungEnergyMemoriesForgetDoorsLessonsBlindPressesFollowingCornersBitterTunesOld ManSparksToysPeasantsSkullsStumblingDonkeyLesson LearnedRelapse Author:Stephen Spender
“As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires werethese elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.” PeopleWritingChildrenFeelingsBeautifulFilmArtistFeltSawsBloodSceneResearchDaughterOriginalsDrinkingLondonVampireCurseSensitiveInterviewsTragicElegantSequelsGloriaHoldenMesmerizedBeautiful Daughter Author:Anne Rice
“When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of enormous, prodigious production.He was a child prodigy, he was a wunderkind.” WritingChildrenPersonsStoriesFilmDiesBornCasesNovelSawsChildhoodProductionsEnormousCuriousButtonsElderlyNewbornBradProdigiesProdigiousScott FitzgeraldNewborn ChildBenjamin Button Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film” ChildrenStillsFilmFavouriteDrawersRailwayRelicsCorsetsUndies Author:Dinah
“The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?” ChildrenFilmDifficultCompanyFantasyAudienceHorrorCategoriesHorror FilmFantasy Films Author:Neil Jordan
“Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.” WayChildrenPersonsFilmExistentialWeepingConsoleMovie Love Author:Louis Garrel
“I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.” ChildrenHas BeensFilmGrewGrew Up Author:Liya Kebede
“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.” PeopleMenWayChildrenImportantSometimesCharacterProblemFilmGuyDiesNationsPresidentLaughingGrowing UpGrowingTaughtThousandBehaviorModelsAdultsDeserveMurderOur ChildrenKillingTrackAvailableSolveScalesFlagsBad GuysInfluentialFlag Waving Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.” PeopleWorldChildrenArtFilmStrongGrowsCommonSafeOur ChildrenHopefullyBarriersOfferingNurtureAvenuesCultural Barriers Author:Carson Grant
“I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.” WorldChildrenTwoWarEnoughWantedFilmSawsSeaDecidedFlyingWar Of The WorldsPilotsAircraftCarrierWorld War TwoAircraft Carriers Author:Gene Cernan
“The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child. Will Ferrell is a man.” MenMeanChildrenDoeFilmCryMy ChildrenCrushI Love HimAnchorman Author:Meryl Streep
“Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.” ThinkingChildrenFilmUnderstandingAdultsPerformancesTreatedNaivePretense Author:Wallace Shawn
“I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.” ChildrenStillsHomeFilmActorsPennsylvaniaChild ActorsIndie Films Author:Charlie McDermott