Generational Perspectives Quotes

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently.

My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood, but it's a great way to start a conversation.

Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view.

I'm not of this generation.

I know plenty of people my age that will never get married because they genuinely believe the false cultural meme that marriage has sadly become. There's only one problem. It's completely untrue.

I have dealt with three generations of players, each one of them was different.

My parents were adorable. They were very kind, and very broad-minded compared to people of their generation.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.

As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.

I've always enjoyed seeing the world through the eyes of my grandchildren.

Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.

You can really learn a lot from young people and the way they view the world.

I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to write about the same things I wrote about at 20. I don't think artists should be farmed out to pasture just because they're in rock n' roll.

You're 25 and you're looking at adults of your parents' age and older saying, "I don't want to live that way," and this is how it happens. It evolves slowly and it's not the result of any movement. It's just young people look at the way their parents are living and if they don't like it they don't want to duplicate it.

There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.

It's very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I'll read a story in the paper and the first thing that pops into my head is, what would my dad say about that? Then I try to break out of that and think, 'What would Said say about that,' and then it gets complicated.

I think that at a certain point in our lives we should have to interview our parents.

When I am 60 or 70, I am sure I can still continue to make films on families.

Not all Millennials think alike. A demographic is not a psychographic.