Greg Mottola Quotes

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

I think that the beauty of 'Spud' is that everyone can connect to the character of Spud in so many ways. It's about real experiences that happen to kids all the time.

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 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.

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.

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 still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.

'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

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.

What I really like about 'Red Band Society' is how real it is, and the experiences that they are going through are experiences that everyone is bound to go through at one point or another in their lives.

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

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.

I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.

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

I want to wear school uniforms. I want to do something like the movie 'Our Times.'

YA, I feel, is so accurate to what it is like be a teenager and the realities of being a teenager and being in love.

Jughead, to me, was reflective of a teen experience that made a lot of sense to me.

I enjoyed being a teenager.

We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.

I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

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