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There's slowly been a kind of shift in how we think about childhood. It's like childhood almost extends to 20 or 22 even after the end of college. When I was growing up, there was this expectation that you were on your own now.

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

When you're growing up, you want to feel part of something.