Quotes About Youth

I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on.

I was first influenced by a friend in fifth grade when he brought a Walkman to school and was listening to 'Paradise City' by Guns 'N Roses, which he had concealed within his hoodie. He put the headphones over my ears and I was completely blown away by what I heard. I'll never forget that.

When I was a boy, it was paradise to go hunting with my father.

When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with the techno-cultural society. They believe in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits.

After my first ad, I was flooded with offers, which I took up. Soon, I decided that it could be a lucrative business with a parallel college life.

I played baseball in high school, and in some parallel universe, if I had not gone into filmmaking, I may have been the coach cursing at the kids.

I'm getting less and less interested in the problems of youth. I'm much more interested in the idea of emotional paralysis, and I find myself less interested in work that doesn't have anything to do with a conversation about the world.

I saw the Clash in '79 at the Paramount in Seattle, and it changed my whole life.

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.

Fame really drove me into my house. I was very paranoid. I didn't like going out. I had no idea how to be comfortable with the press. I was very young. It was really hard for me.

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

When I was a kid, we called every teacher, every parent - anyone over the age of 20, it seemed - 'Mr. or Mrs. so-and-so.'

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

It is good to be a young father, a young parent. You have that energy, and you are growing up with them.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

If a parent knows that their kid is suddenly becoming infatuated with ISIS, they face a very difficult choice, which is, you know, do I - what do I do?

It is every parent's nightmare when a child is in trouble with the law. As a parent, you can do your best to guide young people, but as adults, they make their own choices and live with the consequences of those decisions.

I just always play these really extreme characters - they've all come with parental guidance stickers on them.

'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

Childhood is a short season.

When my kids ask me, 'What did you do when you were 18?' I will tell them I was already at Paris Saint-Germain, that I was already a star and had to stay at home. I'll have my stories about home.