Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes

'90210' was looking at teenagers from a perspective that hadn't really been seen on television, though it had been seen in movies like some John Hughes films. I don't know if you want to say '90210' was real, but what the characters were going through was relatable - in a very glamorous environment.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.

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.

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

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.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

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

I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

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.

There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger. Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

'Welcome to the Dollhouse' is great. Even though it's about a girl in middle school, to me, that feels like the most honest reflection of what being a kid around that age feels like.

I love telling teen stories where the characters are experiencing things for the first time - the stakes feel really high.

I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or something.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

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

In your twenties, you're trying to figure out who you are: making mistakes, wanting to be sexy, growing up as a woman.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

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.

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.