Quotes About Innocence

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.

I had a donkey called Sally that I used to call my BMX bike. As a child, I wasn't a very good horse rider: I thought falling off was normal, and I would just get back on again. I didn't realise you weren't meant to fall off.

'Masoom' was like a picnic for all of us. We kids just wanted to have fun acting in the film. We never realised when the film was completed. When we did, we realised the party was over.

A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

When kids are kids, everything a parent does seems goofy.

I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

You've gotta have time to be a kid, you've gotta have some time to play around and be goofy.

I never had to deal with racism as a kid, by the grace of God somehow.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

I saw a lot of movies that I probably shouldn't have seen. I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon' when I was in first grade - that kind of thing.

I've always enjoyed seeing the world through the eyes of my grandchildren.

I always thought, if I was gonna make a kids show, I would want to make something that my own 12-year-old self would love. So, I put all that in a blender and stewed it together to create 'Gravity Falls.'

SpongeBob is a kid living an adult life. He has a job. Kids think being a fry cook is a great job.

A great thing about kids is they're just themselves and can't help it a lot of the times.

Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child.

I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

It's so important to spend your free time with little people. They grow up before you know it. Childhood is gone in the blink of an eye.

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

I'll never grow up. I'll always be a child at heart.