Kids not only understand [a dark story] but appreciate it … Because in the real world there’s fear, and dark things happen no matter how young you are. People lose parents, people lose friends … There’s darkness in the world. So I think when kids are talked to in that way, they appreciate it. They’re not being given some candy-coated, ‘Oh, this is a world where there are no stakes.’ I think that actually insults their intelligence.
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