Michael Feldman Quotes

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.

It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.

I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.

When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other rules I'm not interested in.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.

There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?

I don't think that youth should be glorified.

Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

I don't think kids have a problem reading books meant for adults; the problem is on the other side of the fence, a misconception of what one kind of literature is 'supposed' to be, perceived to be, as opposed to another: if it's for kids, it can't be any good; it's got to have been dumbed down and/or sweetened up.

There are companies around today who will not hire over age 40, will not train after age 50 and who don’t want you around after age 60.

Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!

Ageism is something that does exist.

You see these casting directors' lists of characters, and they're all boxed in. Twenties is the hot girlfriend, thirties you can still be hot but moving swiftly to hot mum. Forties, you're the legal person in a pantsuit. Then, once you reach your fifties, you're positively elderly.

Every time a young driver comes into F1, the finger's pointed at him over his age. I don't think that's right.

I think, the world over, new ideas have come from young people. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it is rare that new or radical ideas come from old people.

When I was in 4th grade, my mom was diagnosed with oral cancer. It was not looking good, it was serious when they found it. Obviously, I didn't know much about what was going on. I remember feeling a lot of guilt about it, feeling like I somehow contributed to it. I think that's just something that kids often do.

Hollywood stops hiring their star leading ladies when they turn 40. It's very defeating.