Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

People yearn for change, they relish being part of a movement, and they talk about things that are remarkable, not boring.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

buffeted by the passions and longings of youth.

Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive.

I use the word drifted advisedly. I have read novels in which young people are described as bursting with energy — joie de vivre, the magnificent vitality of youth … Personally, all the young people I come across have the air of animal wraiths.

We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to inhabit vicariously another human being who at first seems so unlike us and yet at heart is like us,

Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

All fine films, novels, and plays, through all shades of the comic and the tragic, entertain when they give the audience a fresh model of life empowered with an affective meaning.

There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.

In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.

More than anyone, this book is for those young people — an invitation to once again remake the world, and to bring about, through hard work, determination, and a big dose of imagination, an America that finally aligns with all that is best in us.

Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.