Quotes About Innocence

I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

I grew up playing with dinosaurs instead of Barbie dolls.

I love Disney movies.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

As kids, we did see the Disney movies and the kids' adventure stories of the day.

I'd like to just say that there's nothing darker than 'Old Yeller' and 'Bambi' and some of the early Disney stuff.

I watch a lot of Disney.

I kind of feel like I grew up at Disneyland.

Kids are disorganized.

I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

It's really fun to write something for kids. You can make it a little bit more extreme and crazy than you would for adults.

'Exculpatory' is in the eye of the beholder.

I first faced the camera without even knowing there was a camera. I was in class 6 in Surat. It was a 'nritya-natika' covered by DD National and aired on DD Gujarati.

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

I didn't think I was doing anything bad by falling in love.

When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.

When I was about six years old I decided to make a teddy bears' picnic in our dining room, so I set up 10 dolls and teddy bears around the table and made them each an apricot jam sandwich. It was only when I sat down that I realized I'd made 10 apricot jam sandwiches for 10 inanimate objects, and that I'd have to eat them all.

I think I'm trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like. I skirted the stuff that other kids were doing because the idea of actually getting in trouble was not appealing to me, but I still wanted to have adventures.

'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?