God help anyone who messes with the Virals!
When I think of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them.
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.
I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.
We didn't want to dilute or soften the material because that would really be irresponsible, in its own way. The [Hunger Games] books are very intense and very demanding of the reader, and the movie should be that too.
Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.
When I get asked, 'what are the differences between Twilight and THG' I'm like, 'Erm, what are the similarities?'
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
A movie as specific as 'Heathers,' which took place in a specific time and specific place and in which many of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made sense to see a sequel.
