Caterina Scorsone Quotes

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

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.

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

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

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

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

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.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

I always love writing about children.

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

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

I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do.

I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.

When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot.

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.

Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. You sit there with your mouth open, and your mind goes to all these places they're telling you about that you've never seen, and you're agape. You just can't believe that things can happen like that - but it's just so direct.