William Kircher Quotes

I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.

'Welcome to the Dollhouse' is great. Even though it's about a girl in middle school, to me, that feels like the most honest reflection of what being a kid around that age feels like.

The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of.

No one escapes the teenage years without a lot of challenges. I had many. I was awkward. Petrified of boys.

A lot of shows and movies that have tried to represent teenagers or the chaos that is coming at that age, they shy away from it, romanticize it, or they kind of fantasize what it's like to be a teenager.

It's tough being a teenager, man!

I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.

'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

'Middle school' is used as shorthand for a time when things change. It's a time a lot of kids feel like they don't even have one good friend.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

I don't think anyone can get away from high school unscathed.

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.

We moved in 8th grade, so 7th grade I was doing okay, and then 8th grade, everything fell apart. I had no fashion sense to speak of. We only had a couple of hair care products back then. We didn't have all these things to tame your hair. I had glasses; I had braces. I had it all.