Stephen Chbosky
If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.Collection: Alone
Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.Collection: Learning
As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.
Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.
Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.
When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me.
'Rent' was wonderful in that I was able to adapt something that was beloved to fans, something that was very iconic, but something I had nothing to do with the creation of, so I was very removed. 'Perks' is different because it was my book.
Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don't have to worry about that.
'Harold and Maude' was a seminal movie for me because it's not only a beautiful love story, but it's also about the moment when misfits find each other.
I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.
I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.
If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.
The girl that introduced The Smiths' song 'Asleep' to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there it's been an ongoing journey of different bands at different times, introducing bands and songs to me.
'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.
As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn't a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade.
When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.
I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.
Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.Collection: Sad
It's nice to have things to look forward to.Collection: Nice
I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.Collection: Able
Enjoy it. Because it's happening.Collection: Inspirational
There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.Collection: Happiness
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.Collection: Inspiring
You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't.Collection: Nice
I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.Collection: Together
This moment will just be another story someday.Collection: Life
If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.Collection: Wind
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.Collection: Inspirational
You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.Collection: Love You
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.Collection: Love
I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.Collection: Inspiration
Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.Collection: Light
And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.Collection: Girl
I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?Collection: Love You
I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is.Collection: Figures
And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess he didn't know how much she talked or how much I listened.Collection: Believe
To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.Collection: Thinking
The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. I think I've said that before, but it's getting harder every day.Collection: Lonely
As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.Collection: Thinking
It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of Sam. I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better then the girl actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera. It's very hard for me to see Sam feel better about herself just because a boy sees her that way.Collection: Beautiful
I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.Collection: Likes
It's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.Collection: Be Who You Are
I really do love my sister. Especially when she's nice.Collection: Nice
I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.Collection: Believe
I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.Collection: Memories
Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.Collection: Different
It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.Collection: Ignorance
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine. They kept flashing a 1-800 number, so I called it. The woman who picked up the other end of the phone was named Michelle. And I told Michelle that I was a kid and did not need an exercise machine, but I hoped she was having a good night. That's when Michelle hung up on me. And I didn't mind a bit.Collection: Good Night
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.Collection: Happiness