David Lowery Quotes

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

So a lot of me is still a little kid, and I think that kind of helps alter my sense of reality - it makes me able to just become Belle every single night.

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.

For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women.

The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.

The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels.

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.

I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.

I was the kind of girl who'd peep through her bedroom keyhole to check if her dolls were moving.

It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.

It's a blessing to stay a child all your life - pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

I was an imaginative kid. My sister needed entertaining, whereas I was the one under the table playing with a bit of fluff on the carpet. I was the sort of child who would spend time rolling up balls of all different kinds of fluff and that would be my little family.