Marti Noxon Quotes

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America.

I definitely think, when you're a teenager, it's more forgiving to talk to strangers and go up to people at a mall or whatever.

Growing up in New Jersey, teen clubs were your life. I'm not kidding! That was it. I was literally tied up five days a week with teen clubs; my parents would drop me off. Like, I didn't even drive.

I watch a lot of teen TV and read a lot of YA novels. I also talk to teens whenever I can. There are cultural differences between when I was a teen and now, but emotions - anger, angst, love - are the same.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

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

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'

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

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.

What self-respecting teenage kid growing up in the U.S. hasn't played Truth or Dare? Before cell phones, we kids spent a lot of time in the same place and actually had to come up with our own entertainment. Truth or Dare was the game of choice to break the ice between the boys and the girls.

Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over little things. High school puts all these potential explosions in one place.

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.

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

Peers often matter more than parents.

I just have a problem with youth culture.