Hunter Schafer Quotes

For 'Prom,' if I had missed high school, I don't think it would come off as real.

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.

I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked.

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

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

I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about 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.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

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

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

High school for me was not all that fun. I think it's a lot more fun after when you realize that high school ends, and everything that's important at that time is sort of not important if people don't like your jeans or whatever. It doesn't matter.

I've been very surprised by people asking me what my teenage experience was like.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'

I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

When I first saw 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day.

It's important for teenagers, young adults, parents, teachers, really everyone to see what the true High School experience is.

YA, I feel, is so accurate to what it is like be a teenager and the realities of being a teenager and being in love.

I enjoyed being a teenager.

I'm pretty normal. That's why I feel like I hope most teenagers can relate.

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

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules.