Emma Thompson Quotes About Children
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Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.
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Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
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I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.
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It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing adverts on TV for all this crap that's made by poor people in poor countries that we sell our children who have too much?
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The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
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There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.
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Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
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[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.
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