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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• When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Start

• 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

• I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Men
  • Movies
  • Tired

• 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

• We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Job
  • Kids

• 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

• It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Know
  • Movies
  • Hard

• 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

• We don't support bombing other people's kids, unlike the other woman in the race.

  

  Jill Stein
  • People
  • Kids
  • Support

• Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.

  

  Guy Fieri
  • Kids
  • Food
  • Hot

• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Good
  • Women
  • Society

• When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

  

  Jean-Jacques Annaud
  • Paris

• 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