Pete Docter Quotes

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

I never grew up.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

I always wanted to make a coming-of-age film, or something about growing up, like 'The Wonder Years,' 'Stand By Me' or 'Diner.'

I never wanted to grow up. It really is a trap.