Adora Svitak Quotes

To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward.

I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

Innocence can be more powerful than experience.

When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by prejudices. You're much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that kind of place.

Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.

I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.

Kids will remind you that, even though you've gone down a road 100 times, it's brand new for them - and that's healthy.

Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.

It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way.

I wake up every day trying to hold on to my innocence. That is not a thing that has to do with age. That has to do with the life that you want to have and the perspective that you want to have on life. I do not want to become jaded or cynical.

When you work with filmmakers, and it's their first film, there's an exuberance and optimism, which is quite... There's no room for being jaded. Thinking that you know it all.

The way I saw the world as a child was not wrong. And it's okay to see the world that way. If it doesn't hurt anybody.

I have a very young outlook.

I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.

If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

The main thing about SpongeBob is that he celebrates innocence. His outlook on life is very optimistic and earnest, and I think kids relate to that. He has a creative spark in the same way children are very creative from an open and naive perspective.

I've got a lot of experience under my belt, but I still have a very naive and idealistic outlook on life.

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

I have a 12-year-old daughter, and all the time people will say, 'Oh, she's young!" and you'd be so surprised what you can learn from that 12-year-old if you just opened up your mind.

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.