Gary Bettman Quotes

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

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

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

I enjoyed being a teenager.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

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.

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.

A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

I found being a teenager quite difficult, actually. I put a lot of pressure on myself, and now, looking back at it, I really wish that I had relaxed and just enjoyed it more.

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

I don't think I've grown up easily.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.