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Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.

I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they'll win.

Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

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

I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed.

It's harder to take care of kids than it is to make a movie.