Beau Bridges Quotes

No matter how many helicopters there are, when it comes down to it there is the camera and you.

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

The funny thing is that I almost find it more difficult now to take a still picture than to be behind a moving camera. I'm just so much more inspired and comfortable and confident when I have that whole operation going. I feel more connected. Snapping a moment doesn't seem relevant to me anymore.

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

With regard to my family as I said nothing upon the subject before I may tell you that I have six children living, 1 dead and before I have the pleasure of seeing you I expect another.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.