Edward Zwick Quotes

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

So much changes in a year when you're a teenager.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

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

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time - and I still hated high school. It's just a rough, rough period in one's life.

Kids are different. Boys and girls at 14, 15, 16 - some are more developed in the mind; some aren't... It comes down to the individual.

I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you're not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

I think high school's very difficult. You're figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.