Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

Our basic ideology coming into screenwriting was to write first and revise slowly, and things just came into place after that. ”

I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types. ”

I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front. ”

I get a lot of people coming up to me and saying, 'I really hate you.' And they say it in the nicest possible way, and I accept it. It's the people who come up to you and say, 'I really liked your character. Man, he was right!' Those are the ones you worry about. ”

Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does. ”

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. ”

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community. ”

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon. ”

I partied too much. I was still 19, 20 years old. I was coming from a little small city where there's 40,000 people, so being in New Jersey, New York, being with a big All-Star like Stephon Marbury, he's calling me every night to go out with him. I didn't know how to say no. ”

I was only listening to rock music, burning joss sticks in my bedroom, wanting only to be a disc jockey, and watching six hours of television a night - the worst kind of teenage alienation. ”