Teenage Movies Quotes

'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.

When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It On.'

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

You know how in most teenage movies the girl meets the boy, they kiss, they have some type of fallout, then there's an awkward sex scene, and then they're together forever? And they say the perfect things the whole way? That doesn't happen in real life.

But 'Sixteen Candles' is the only movie I could watch over and over and over without getting sick of it.

I love Cameron Crowe's 'Say Anything' and 'Almost Famous.' I think those are really great coming-of-age movies.

The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.

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

Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined 'Ridgemont High' and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes.