Quotes About Youth

I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed.

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.

The notion of 'building a career' had never been heard or dreamed of when I was young.

The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional.

It's an individual's choice to do whatever they please to their own bodies. However I have a massive problem with the notion that people think it's okay telling young people that they need Botox and fillers.

I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there weren't a whole lot of rules.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

When you're a kid, you think 'Oh, it's so great. I'm going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to go to Broadway.' For a long time, it was such a novelty.

Back then, when I was a kid, I watched Vince Carter every now and then.

No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.

All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.