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.
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
I think kids relate to me because I have some ability to remain a little bit naive. Even during interviews. Mostly during interviews.
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.
Kids are the most genuine thing to me: everything they say and do, they mean it.
Watching my little 18 month old confidently waddle around his weekend exploring the world, I realized that one of the things that's so joyful about being around little one's is that they haven't absorbed all of our cultural programming yet.
The main thing about SpongeBob is that he celebrates innocence. His outlook on life is very optimistic and earnest, and I think kids relate to that. He has a creative spark in the same way children are very creative from an open and naive perspective.
