Spike Jonze Quotes

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

Enjoy the little fun things - like taking your kids to school - before they're all grown up.

You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the sunlight at their eager parents. Everything is orderly and bright.

If you have children and want to give your future self a present, record their laughter as toddlers. When they're older and away from you, you might find that clip in the middle of the day, and it will transport you as surely as if you had a time machine.