Stephen Chbosky Quotes

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• Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need…
• Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.
• 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…
• 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.…
• You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't.
• I know that things get worse before they get better because that’s what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.
• Everyone else is either asleep or having sex.  I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.
• Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.
• I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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