Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes

When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.

It's so much fun trying to channel my inner four-year-old.

I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete Jackson has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

If you play without the shackles and burdens, then you play like you did when you were a kid.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

Ever since I was a little kid, I used to love doing the evil laugh: 'Mwahaha!' I could really do it! And there's a little bit of that inside everybody. Still, as a kid, it was like my favorite thing.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.

I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!

To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

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

When I was younger, I was always willing to tell a joke and play out a scene. I would get sticks and pretend they were light sabers. I think it was just at a young age, I was so willing to jump up and perform a little play at the family picnic.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

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