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.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

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

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

I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.

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

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

For 'Prom,' if I had missed high school, I don't think it would come off as real.

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.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

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.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked.

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

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

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.