“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
“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
“So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're always eroding natural affections for families. Fathers betray their commitments, children's are always portrayed as brats and disobedient, marriages are always in crisis and struggle. I think (for) most of us, that's not the lives we live. We're always being challenged, we always have challenges but we love our families, we love our spouse, we love our children.” ThinkingHumansChildrenFilmOrderUniverseFatherNaturalChallengesMoralStruggleCommitmentDignityOur ChildrenCrisisAffectionDenyOur FamilyBetraySpouseTranscendentHuman DignityErodeBratLove Our ChildrenLove Our Family Author:Jason Jones
“My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.” IfsKnowsWayTryingChildrenFilmCommunityActingTvsEssentialsDoctorsOur ChildrenAddictionLawyerAcceptedPracticalsYour ChildrenImmigrantsLazinessMumComprehension Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar
“In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and more attracted to sitcoms - hard, adventure films and said, our children are no longer reading, or else they're reading cartoons.” ChildrenFilmReadingLiteratureYouthAdventureOur ChildrenCartoonSitcomLament Author:Wole Soyinka
“Any platform that you use to tell stories helps you regardless of the medium regardless if they are bedtime stories that you tell your children or comics or film. Specifically what makes comics unique is that they are a storytelling device that forces you to think both visually and economically. Some might say you are limited by your imagination, but that is not true because someone has to draw it.” ThinkingChildrenHelpingFilmImaginationUniqueOur ChildrenStorytellingYour ChildrenBedtimeBedtime Stories Author:Jeph Loeb
“I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. Any way to get the word out, I'm just learning about this. The end of this distribution sentence is the scariest part, which is when you start producing and directing. Now the movies are a little more like your children. You now spent years of your life and then it just dumps in one day and you think what happened? It doesn't always happen.” ThinkingMeanChildrenFilmLike YouOne DayOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Campbell Scott
“Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect.” WayWantChildrenSometimesCharacterMightFilmCertainQualityDangerousLike YouApproachOur ChildrenPrivilegeYour ChildrenSpecifications Author:Werner Herzog