Leslie Bricusse Quotes

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude.

I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a year as part of their definition.

I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.

I think old people like Hillary Clinton and I shouldn't try and be cool with social networks, you know; maybe she should leave that stuff up to Chelsea.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

There are lots of things about me that aren't like the rest of my friends. But I try to learn as much about millennials as I can so I can stay afloat among them.

I got extreme street credibility from my high school-aged son. He's like, 'Dad, the fact that you're in 'American Horror Story' is absolutely cool!' I was like, 'Okay, but I'm not sure if it's appropriate for you.' And he was like, 'Dad, come on! I'm a New York City kid - in high school.'

Young people never do have a clue. There are some young people that do, but they've always been the exception. They always all grow up at some point. The problem is that they're all being indoctrinated by stupid leftists.

It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

A lot of people in my generation have dared to ask questions like, 'Who is James Dean?' And I can't imagine asking a question like that, just because it's been ingrained in me since I was so young.

In a very real sense, I represent pop culture in an iconic way. It's been very good to me, so anything I can do to help the fans to tumble along - it's good.

The entertainment industry is always targeted at young people. Understandably so, as they are the key consumers. The young are the ones who are falling in love, starting out in life; older people aren't. Nobody thinks, 'Now I'm going to write a film about an older person.'