Words matter. These are the best Stephen Chbosky Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
‘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 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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
