Emile Hirsch Quotes

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

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

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

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.

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.

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

Cinema was my rite of passage.

I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult.