Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

Remember the phrase - 'Act your age, not your shoe size?' That didn't apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

Zuri is slowly starting to become more of who I am in real life. Starting on 'Jessie,' she had a huge imagination, and had her imaginary friends, but now that she's 13 she has definitely passed that stage in her life and has grown so much.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

When I did 'Fast Times,' I felt very close emotionally to the characters. I liked those characters because they all had to work, so they were dealing with adult problems even though they were very immature, and I could relate to that.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it's like, 'Ugh, kids!' Maybe that will change when I get older.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.

Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.