Ahna O'Reilly Quotes

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

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.

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.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

It's such a potent thing, to be a kid. We grow up, and we don't want to remember how everything is so beautiful and terrifying when we're young. The older you get, the more you hope to muffle things.

I was never much into knights and sorcery and that kind of thing. It's not because I was into anything cooler. I certainly wasn't. I played with LEGOs. I played with LEGOs way past when most people played with LEGOs.

I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.

Every time I play 'Part of Your World,' a whole part of my life comes back to me. It's just inescapable - it was an innocent time, and a sense of discovery that we were all involved with.

I love Disney.

There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.

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.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

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 love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

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

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

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

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.