Frank Miller Quotes

When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the same time.

When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.

When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found girls.

I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.

I started dating at 16.

I enjoyed being a teenager.

I kissed my first girl when I was 13.

I was not a comic book kid.

My childhood went on far too long.

I was fortunate that I was born in an era where comic books kind of grew up with me.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

Being into comic books is definitely an Americana thing.

I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid.

I think saying 'a John Hughes movie' is just shorthand for a lot of people to say 'a coming-of-age story,' because I think, when you're of a certain age, that's what John Hughes means to you.

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

You couple that with how I looked when I was younger, and growing up... The voice is not quite breaking. It's awful. No, I don't enjoy that at all. But that's one of the things people love and find so endearing about the Harry Potter series, and why they've lasted so long. Because people have grown up with us, and they care about the characters. They're not just some characters in the film, they're people you can relate to, and you care about, and you grew up with, and when they die in this film, people feel it!

You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.