Cher Quotes

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

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.

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

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Talk about high school and what we identify with in the play; things that have happened to us and all of our high school experiences that we could bring to this. And to talk about what everyone knows in each specific scene.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

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.

I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.

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.

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

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.

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.

Even in movies like 'Superbad,' they're all lovable kids.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

I definitely went through some dark teenage years. I wore black raccoon eyeliner every single day. I would be late to school if I didn't have time to put my eyeliner on.

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

The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of.

I would say I was an all-American teenager.

I don't think 'Euphoria' can capture the entirety of the teen-in-high-school experience, but I think it is realistic. It's scary in that sense because I don't think we get to see a lot of depictions of high school this raw. I think that truth might scare people.

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 felt like I was Ferris Bueller. I wanted to be those kids in 'The Breakfast Club.'