Roger Corman Quotes

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

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

It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.

I get a lot from all young people. I make movies for young people. If I made pictures for people my age, no one would see them. I hang with young people all the time.

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

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

I've no patience for people who say they never watch television. It's a great way to keep in touch with popular culture, and it's important that children can relate to what their schoolmates are watching.

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

We weren't selling anything. We were just having a good time. And that feeling - there are people who say, 'I wish my kids, I wish my generation, had a chance to see it.'

As we grow up, either we lose people or have a lot of them around us. I have seen many people who are isolated in their old age.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.