Age-Inappropriate Content Quotes

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends.

It's pornography for me only when it involves violence or children.

Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.

I saw a lot of movies that I probably shouldn't have seen. I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon' when I was in first grade - that kind of thing.

We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids should not be exposed to with explosions, carnage and violence.

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

It's like letting little children watch the sex act.

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.

I would watch movies and listen to music that you wouldn't think a child would listen to.

My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

Yeah, my parents exposed me to horror movies when I was like 6 or 7. I mean exposed me in a good way, they didn't mean any harm.

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

I had one of those families that let me watch things they should not have let me watch. When I was a kid, I remember I watched 'Alien' at, like, 6. It was traumatizing.

'The Catcher in the Rye' was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for young minds. My parents certainly would not have approved of the book, but I secretly read it when I was in 7th grade. I felt so rebellious, and my young mind loved it.

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

For me personally, when I was a kid, that's like the stuff I wanted to watch - all the R-rated stuff.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'

The funniest is the moms who get really angry with me, and they bring their kid who's dressed like Deadpool, and he's 9 years old, and they're scolding me that their little kid can't enjoy Deadpool.

Even as a child, when kids my age would watch cartoons, I preferred watching horror flicks. I had watched some Hollywood horror flicks and even films made by the Ramsay brothers by the time I was six! I have always been biased towards that genre.

I don't want little kids reading my comics.

I don't even think I'll see all of 'The Mist' until I'm 18. I'm going to the premiere, but I'll close my eyes during the scarier scenes.