Michelle Williams Quotes

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

It's fun when your kids reach a point where you can actually start talking about things.

Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Sometimes people ask if my books have morals or lessons for readers, and I shudder at that thought. I always say that I have more questions than answers.

I was the youngest child. I got to be myself and ask stupid questions because I was the youngest. It is so important to listen to the questions children have and reward them for the wondrous questions they ask.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.

I think it's the great thing about having kids. They have interests that you might not have, and it opens your horizons.

One of my favorite things to do with my children is to read to them.

My children are, without question, the most wonderful thing. I've learnt more about myself through my children than any other experience in my life.

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

When you are a father, when you talk to your son or your daughter for the first time, they don't understand you. Of course, you have patience, and you keep talking to them, and eventually they do understand.

Intellectual and emotional curiosity is what I hope I've taught my children.

It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better.'

I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my life, just when I think I've finished writing about it, the dynamics shift, and then I have a whole new set of questions and worries and misunderstandings to wrestle with.

Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!

One of the things with our show is posing a lot of questions, but getting a lot of answers too.

If someone's lying to us, then it's rare that we know that they're lying to us. It's only in bad films that you recognize immediately that an actor's playing in such a way that you can see that he's lying, and that's simply dumb. But to reach that, it requires that you make a film in such a way that a spectator feels compelled to find his own explanation. You want to lead the spectator to find his own interpretation. To ask questions rather than provide all of the answers. Doing that leads to open endings and open dramaturgy.