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.

Stephen McHattie

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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.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • College

• I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Movies
  • Patience
  • Boring

• 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.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Think

• My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Tradition

• 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.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Reality
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Old

• I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Kids
  • Things
  • Young

• Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Kids
  • Through
  • Naughty

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Live
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Movies
  • I Can
  • Clothing

• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Me

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Process

• There are so many movies people make just to make money.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • People
  • Money
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Kids
  • American
  • America

• 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.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Want

• There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • World
  • Better
  • Movies

• When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Money
  • Movies
  • Try

• If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Faith
  • Me
  • Always

• In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

  

  Kirsty Coventry
  • Swimming
  • Endurance

• When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Star

• I'm not sure I like making movies that my kids can't go to, but that's just how it is.

  

  Stephen McHattie
  • Kids
  • Movies
  • Making