Joshua Jackson Quotes

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

Coming-of-age stories, people roll their eyes.

I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.

I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.

I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

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

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

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.

I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.

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

With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

College was the first time I felt I really had to choose who my friends were.

'Chhichhore' is not just a story, it is a journey that everyone goes through. The film showcases some of the most beautiful years of one's life, where friends become family and stay with you till you age.

'Carrie Diaries' is very heartfelt and earnest in a lot of ways.

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

I love telling 'first' stories - first loves, first college experience, first kiss, all of those kinds of things.

I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it a lot.

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.

'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.

When I did 'Fast Times,' I felt very close emotionally to the characters. I liked those characters because they all had to work, so they were dealing with adult problems even though they were very immature, and I could relate to that.