Millennium Teens

First memory would probably be with my grandma at her house, riding round on a trike, just up and down the streets and to the beach.

– Tom Stevich on his first, happy memory

Every day's a good day — crashing down mountain bike tracks and, it's all normal, it's great.

– Sean Pennell's mother on appreciating each day after Sean's cancer battle

My sister and I, I'd say we're like friends, we like to give each other a bit of a hard time.

– Sean Pennell on his relationship with sibling Emma

I stick to the rules. If I do what I'm told then I'll be in the good books...I don't really like being in the bad books.

– Paris Sinclair on her desire to stay in her grandma's good books

I'm super sporty, super, super competitive...

– Jordan Cameron describes herself

It's made me question my faith and I'm like, why am I not getting healed? Have I done something to not be able to get healed? Just been a lot of questions...

– Jordan Cameron questions her Christian faith after a slow to heal injury

I'll do it till I can't, physically...

– Sean Pennell on his love of scuba diving

[Director] Kate Peacocke says the teens were selected because of their diversity, but haven't bonded as friends. While the documentary-makers expected that at least a couple of the parents would have broken up, all have stayed together and all went on to have more children.

– Excerpt from an article about documentary Millennium Teens, The NZ Herald, 1 September 2018

Jamie Oliver — fight me!

– Megan Prentice rates her cooking skills

You need to go get a job.

– Larenz Olliver's dad lays it on the line for Larenz

When I was growing up in Darfield, all the kids knew me as the kid who had cancer. It's different here. My uni friends are a big part of my life. They know I had cancer, but it doesn't define me. I was diagnosed with leukemia when I was 10. I was pretty active, playing a lot of sport, and I just got really lethargic. I think it was a shock. The hardest thing was for my family. I had three and a half years of treatment.

– Sean Pennell on his health journey, The NZ Herald, 1 September 2018

Normally when you make a documentary your key subjects are people who have got something extraordinary about them or something special and that's why you're following them ... but none of these kids actually signed up for this; they inherited the opportunity.

– Director and producer Kate Peacocke on her series of documentaries following children born in 2000, Stuff, 30 August 2018

Dad will be on the side of the pool kind of coaching and we'll all be sitting in the pool looking up and watching, and he'll be using like rugby analogies and like going 'Oh, pretend that you're the prop or the lock or the wing', or something like that and we'll kind of be going 'Yeaaah?'

– Paris Sinclair jokes about her rugby loving dad coaching her waterpolo team