Lee Unkrich Quotes

No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

I never wanted to grow up. It really is a trap.

It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.

It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.

Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and a lot of the folks that I work with, childhood is kind of a sacred, special kind of point in time that has a real joy and purity to it. And we sort of long on a daily basis to reach back and kind of grab onto that in some way.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

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

There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.

The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.

I never was a child.

Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and talks about all of the treasures of that time, like imagination and belief, that are inevitably lost in adulthood.

The first movie that ever scared me, I feel like it wasn't a scary movie. I feel like it was 'Dennis the Menace' or something.

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.