Mitchell Zuckoff Quotes

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.

'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it.

I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time... Of course it's not remotely like seeing a baby for the first time, but I can remember with each book what room I was in when I opened it. That would be excitement, though, I think. Not pride.

All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

If you don't have nerves and a little trepidation about any new project, then I don't think you're really alive.

It's always hard to watch something you create be put in somebody else's hands.

With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

I feel like I'm that typical new parent that's nervous about everything.

'One Million Bullets' is my baby.