Daniel Espinosa Quotes

That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

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.

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

I'd like to live permanently in October 1988, when I started college. I had no responsibility and the energy to do whatever I wanted. My optimism wasn't dented by experience or low self-esteem.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

I can run free here. I can go back to being a kid.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

I had a real strong fantasy life as a kid. But then you grow up and think about real jobs.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.