"Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of"
- William Golding
About this Quote
This quote recommends that youth is a momentary state of being that a person at some point outgrows. It indicates that youth is a period of naivety and also innocence that is eventually changed by maturation and experience.
"I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood"
"My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night"