S. E. Hinton Quotes

'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.

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.

What's great about 'Skins' is that the characters are exactly like people around you.

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

'90210' was looking at teenagers from a perspective that hadn't really been seen on television, though it had been seen in movies like some John Hughes films. I don't know if you want to say '90210' was real, but what the characters were going through was relatable - in a very glamorous environment.

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.

Judy Blume especially sort of broke the boundaries of what is appropriate and what should be written about - what teenagers are actually doing.

Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.

I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.

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.

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.

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

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

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

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.

It's really rare as a teenager to be offered a role that actually resembles what it's like to be a teenager, because there are so many stereotypes that might be attractive to watch, but make you think: 'Who is that? Who has that life at 16?'

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't think I'm alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things.

'Skins' meant so much to so many people. It was so much part of its time, and I was so young.

I had my first girlfriend at 15. Life was difficult then.

I want to wear school uniforms. I want to do something like the movie 'Our Times.'

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

I would say I was an all-American teenager.

I just wanted to do the things that all normal teenagers wanted to do. So I did become quite rebellious.

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.