Stephen Chbosky Movies Quotes & Sayings

Was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. And I think it's sad because Susan doesn't look as happy. — Stephen Chbosky

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. — Stephen Chbosky

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important. — Les Wexner

Reason forbade me many things which,
Instinctively, my nature was attracted to;
And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing,
I believe a falsehood or deny the truth. — Abu'l-A'la Al-Ma'arri

Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus. — Robert Herjavec

Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before. — Stephen Chbosky

Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective. — Stephen Chbosky

Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. I don't mean the big fraternity party kind of movie. More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain. I think something like that would be very good for him, especially if the girl were unconventionally beautiful. They are the best kind of girls, I think. I personally find 'super models' strange. I don't know why this is. — Stephen Chbosky

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise. — Edwin Way Teale

The little girl smiled. The spaces in between her teeth were dark with blood. Aside from that, she was kind of cute. — S.M. Reine

I mean it's not like in the movies where girls like assholes or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them a purpose. — Stephen Chbosky

I'm sure computers are useful, but next to all these warm, beautiful books they seem so cold and clinical. — J.R. Johansson

And that was what all the expressions felt like - masks. I didn't believe them. They were too thorough, too nuanced; they were never at odds with his subject matter. — Helen Oyeyemi

But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be. — Iain M. Banks

Don't leave home without your left hemisphere — Michael Gazzaniga

The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives. — Walter Laqueur

You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys. I mean it's not like in movies where girls like assholes or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them purpose. — Stephen Chbosky

She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying "Young Lady" after every sentence. — Stephen Chbosky

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a
different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity. — Charles J. Sykes

No man [ ... ] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself. — John Milton

speculated that cameras are effective only when they are actively monitored by law enforcement agents, who act quickly upon the information obtained by the cameras. — Julia Angwin

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

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. — Stephen Chbosky