Emma Thompson Children Quotations

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

Parents always think it's the kids' fault. If they're naughty, it's the kids' fault. Not true! Children generally are not naughty for no reason.

I think it would be terrible if what children come away (with) from this movie was that you've always got to behave. No! Not so!

I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.

The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.

It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing adverts on TV for all this crap that's made by poor people in poor countries that we sell our children who have too much?

Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.