Suki Waterhouse Quotes

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I always wanted to make a coming-of-age film, or something about growing up, like 'The Wonder Years,' 'Stand By Me' or 'Diner.'

Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

For the most part, this record is autobiographical. At some point, the story of 'The Houston Kid' takes my experiences from 6 to 15 years old, and it sort of cross-pollinates with other kids in my neighborhood. It fuses their experiences with what was going on in my life.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.