Daily Inspiration Quote by Noah Hathaway

There is something almost disarmingly plain about Noah Hathaway’s “I’d have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time” - and that plainness is the point. In a culture trained to expect child actors to deliver either glossy nostalgia or gritty retrospective trauma, Hathaway offers a third register: uncomplicated gratitude. The line refuses the usual narrative arc where a beloved ’80s artifact must be “reckoned with.” Instead, it treats the production not as myth, but as a job that happened to feel like magic from the inside.

The phrase “I’d have to say” carries a soft hedging that reads less like evasiveness and more like someone scanning their own memory and landing on the simplest true thing. Then he goes broad: not a scene, not a co-star, not a special effect - “the whole experience.” That wideness is strategic. It positions the film’s enchantment as environmental, not transactional, suggesting that what made the movie endure wasn’t just Falkor or the Swamp of Sadness, but a set where wonder was manufactured and, at least for one kid, actually worked.

Context matters: The Neverending Story has become a generational touchstone, endlessly meme-able, endlessly revisited. Hathaway’s quote functions as a small act of stewardship. It protects the audience’s nostalgia by confirming it wasn’t counterfeit, while also quietly asserting ownership: before it was your childhood myth, it was his lived day-to-day, and he remembers it as joy.