Marc Forster Quotes

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

When you work with filmmakers, and it's their first film, there's an exuberance and optimism, which is quite... There's no room for being jaded. Thinking that you know it all.

I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into things blind and energised as if you were 15. Keep that terror.

The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

You've got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.

Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.

I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward.

Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.

There is nothing like youth.

The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.