Gia Coppola Quotes

I enjoyed being a teenager.

I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.

I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.

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

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

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

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.

Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could very well be true. I would throw out that teens and tweens are just absolutely fabulous and the most interesting people on the planet. And it is a time of high drama, and everything matters.

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.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.

What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel.

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

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

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.