Regina Brett Quotes

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.

Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.

I think that children's books should be censored not for references to sex but for references to diseases. I mean, who didn't think after reading 'Madeline' that they were going to get appendicitis?

The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.

I work with kids, and I see certain things, so I realize now why my mother was so horrified and overprotective of everything that I watched.

There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.

The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.

'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic.

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should.

I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.

To some extent, at least, you have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed information to them. Sometimes that is kindly meant, and sometimes not.

My children can't see many of the films that I've been in because I'm always either dying or taking my clothes off.