As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.
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You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.
It's one of those things where people tell you that when you have kids it will change your perspective on life, and you're like, 'Yea, yea,' but then you really understand it when it happens to you.
I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?
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.
The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that.
In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.
When I was younger, I thought every kid was adopted because that's all I've known. I have everything I need, so I never felt the need to have answers for what happened.
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