Mariella Frostrup Quotes

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

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.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.

They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.

When I did 'Fast Times,' I felt very close emotionally to the characters. I liked those characters because they all had to work, so they were dealing with adult problems even though they were very immature, and I could relate to that.

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.

Early youth is a baffling time.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.

I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.

It took me a long time to grow up.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.