I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.
It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position.
If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.
Every adult needs a child to teach; it’s the way adults learn.
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.
And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.
When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date.
The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents. . . They treated us like adults.
I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker. ' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.
It was actually what my dad did and with the Muppets, the years with the Muppets, it was really all targeted to adults. It was in a time when everything had to be safe for the whole family. But he was targeting adults.
I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.
I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!
I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.
We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth.
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.