With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.
Kids in the entertainment industry are at a risk of developing depression, as they see glamour at an early age.
Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.
Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.
When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.
With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.
Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
I've no patience for people who say they never watch television. It's a great way to keep in touch with popular culture, and it's important that children can relate to what their schoolmates are watching.
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