Steve Carell Quotes

When I meet parents in my children's school, they say there aren't good films for kids to watch. I wonder about the lack of such films too. What do my kids watch?

There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.

I would never bring a kid to a comedy show myself, but I have noticed that I can't stop other people from bringing their kids.

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.

The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.

I don't like to label films with a genre.

One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, 'We don't want to make children's films any more. We want to make films that are going to appeal to all quadrants.' Hence you have films like 'Shrek' and all the Pixar stuff, which is designed to suit everybody.

A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was.

The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the movie that were family movies, you could make a little art movie pile, you could make a little action movie pile.

It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.

People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.

In the same way that so many people read 'Harry Potter' and went to see 'Harry Potter,' just because a movie is about a kid, doesn't mean it's for kids, and just because a movie is about a girl, doesn't mean it's for girls.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.

I have no hesitation doing children's movies. Zero. And I don't even have kids.

My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo', and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.

I have a few go-to moves like jazz hands, shake the booty, stupid eyes. It was once a mating ritual, but now it's all about looking silly and making the kids smile.

I've always been against the idea of dividing films between festival titles and popular movies. I think you can make films that are both.