Stephen McHattie (Stephen McHattie Smith) Quotes
I'm not sure I like making movies that my kids can't go to, but that's just how it is.
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Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
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Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.
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I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.
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There are so many movies people make just to make money.
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Just as we send young American Jews to Israel through the Birthright program, we need to also consider a 'reverse Birthright' for Israeli kids to come see America.
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I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.
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If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
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There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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I have to go... drop some kids in the pool.
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[When I was a kid] I was a surgeon, amputating legs and arms of my paper dolls. And I had a little board with little tacks that I would tack them down to do this.
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My life was very Japanese.
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I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.
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I'm not sure I like making movies that my kids can't go to, but that's just how it is.
