Bo Burnham Quotes

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.

My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.

It has always been very important to look carefully at young people and the way they wear clothes.

There are constant challenges about what's 'mainstream.' These kids in 'Dope' are as mainstream as the kids in 'Superbad' or 'The Breakfast Club.'

The thing that I find interesting about teens now is that no matter how desperate we seem to be taxonomically 'othering' them, for one reason or another - because the Internet, because whatever - I feel like a lot of the benchmarks and the experiences are, you know, same for teens through time immemorial.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to find kids to hang out with that don't consume a lot of commercial culture.

I really related to that experience of being what we call the 'bridge generation' and always trying to navigate your more traditional growing-up experiences with wanting the latest Air Jordans or whatever it is: Trying to explain to your parents why, and they just, like, don't get it.

The children of less effective, less competent parents will be more likely to adopt the customs and values of the peer group.

We are in love with youth culture in this country... It permeates every aspect of people's lives.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

I'm anti - the pussy generation. Not to be confused with pussy.

Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong. Their daughters live in a media-drenched world floded with junk values. As girls turn from their parents, they turn to this world for guidance about how to be an adult.

Every generation has had some sort of focus for their unrest and discomfort with growing up. But today, the music that's in the charts is probably liked by their parents as well, and I think it's a part of youth that you need something that isn't liked or understood by the older generation.

I don't have anything new to say about teenagers.

I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

Whatever is shown in a TV show is a reflection of society.

I love being in a public space where teenagers are talking. And the funny thing is that it hasn't changed that much. There's certainly slang that I'm not familiar with, but among the average teen, it's still the same.

Whatever your age, parents generally embarrass their children. I think that's a role we have to play.

The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.

Many parts of the media have created the situation where uninteresting fashion can thrive.

When you're young and search your name on Twitter to see what everyone is saying about you, which everyone does when you're young… it was one of those things I had to get on with.