Steven Spielberg Quotes

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people - because I was close to something that fell apart.

I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

Rihanna told me her parents used to argue so intensely, she used to get these headaches, these migraines that were almost not even treatable with medicine. The moment her parents separated, her migraines went away.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.

The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn't seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that's why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn't.

I can distinctly remember being the only boy in my class whose parents had separated.

I was married for nine years before my husband and I separated and eventually divorced. Just as I'd watched my parents arguing and fighting, my son watched his parents arguing and fighting. It was like history repeating itself, and I felt terrible about him having to witness that.

My first recollection of performing was shortly after my parents split up, so the logical conclusion to draw is that that affected me.

It does hurt that your parents are not together and they are fighting. Looking back, I grew up a little quicker than I would have normally. I spent half the week with my mom and half with my dad.

I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone.

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

Every movie I do, I always use things that have happened in my life. Funny moments, anything. If it just sticks out I'll write it down and use that, too, because it has to come out of you. But no one can work when they're depressed. I don't think I'd physically be able to do it if I were depressed.

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.