Michael Gracey Quotes

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

I realize that there's a whole generation of kids out there like me who are totally disregarding the moral values taught to us by our parents.

Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

I told my extremely conservative, uber-traditional Korean father, 'Hey, Dad, I know what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to be an actor.'

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they're just on another planet.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

I have never tried to bear a judgment against my own father because I consider that, in our European culture, one does not judge his parents. Now, I have expressed my disagreements with my father on certain points, disagreements related to the way one should express things, something that has also to do with a difference of generations.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

Our parents don't always know what's right. It's a new age.

The youth doesn't know what they want while the older generation remains stuck in the past. But the basic concept of entertainment remains the same - demand and supply - and that won't change.

Whatever your age, parents generally embarrass their children. I think that's a role we have to play.

My dad felt old school.

I can't make the new generation like me, because they didn't grow up on me. So I stick to what I know.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.