Stephen Baker Quotes

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

I would never bring a kid to a comedy show myself, but I have noticed that I can't stop other people from bringing their kids.

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.

I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic.

To some extent, at least, you have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed information to them. Sometimes that is kindly meant, and sometimes not.

Most parents don't want their kids to have smartphones in the first place. But parents worry about the social stigma of their child being the only one without a phone.

As parenting goes, knowing the whereabouts of one's children is pretty fundamental.

Parents, you need to watch who you let loose your girls around. If you're so desperate that you want your kids to be stars, and you're going to unleash your daughters to the world, you better watch what you get.

Yeah, it's every parent's worst nightmare, to lose connection with your children, to not fully engage with them or have an understanding of what crowd of people they're mixing with, what they are watching online.

Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.

I didn't realize how limiting an R rating is. I made 'Disco' as a cautionary tale for 14- and 15-year-old girls, and those girls were not allowed to see the film by their parents.

I was three years old. I had a go-kart that my dad had on a leash so I would not go too quick.

I've always produced content that is PG - free from profanities and swearing - because I know I have a bunch of young kids who watch it. I meet mums all the time, and they're always very grateful because they know their child is watching and I'm not going to be influencing them negatively. Big up the mums, man.

If, later on, my daughter wants to be in a girl group, then I think I am going to oppose.

I'm not allowed to date. My dad said so. Not until I'm, like, 90.

The mobile phone is not a toy; it's a device that uses radio waves.

As a parent myself, I can appreciate the MPAA and what they're supposed to do, but what happens with NC-17 is that the MPAA is basically taking away the rights of parents. They're basically telling me that I can't show my kids this movie if I decide they can see it.

I feel like covering my children's eyes when they watch television. It's better that they spend their time doing something constructive.

My main concern is my kids. And I don't want them to see or hear anything on TV that I didn't discuss with them.

There's no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.

So I do make a real effort that all of my videos are things that, if I had kids, I wouldn't mind them watching.