The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
I think there's actually a benefit to working with teen actors: they've got such boundless energy, and everybody is willing to try different things.
This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
My younger sister and younger brother are huge 'Teen Witch' fans.
If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.
For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.
Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.
Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.
Being a musician since I was a teen, Guitar Center is the staple. You need anything to create, it's there. You need a Guitar Center. You gotta give it homage. It's a tool shed, and without the tool shed, it's hard to create.
I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.
I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.
I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.
I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.
I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challengi...
I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.
I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'
