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A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

I was always the slightly fat kid, which used to bother me quite a bit.

I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact.

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

When you're a kid, you read about this glamorous acting world, but actually it's really unglamorous.

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

We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.