Quotes About Youth

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

I always wanted to make a coming-of-age film, or something about growing up, like 'The Wonder Years,' 'Stand By Me' or 'Diner.'

Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

Growing up, I used to literally run home from school to watch the Dior and Galliano shows online.

That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.

When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma.

I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

I did 'Daddy' when I was 17 years old. My father, Mahesh Bhatt, directed the movie, and he cast me.

I directed my music to the teen-agers. I was 30 years old when I did 'Maybellene.' My school days had long been over when I did 'School Day,' but I was thinking of them.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

I did find my direction at an early age.

Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

I ride my dirt bike. I go to the mall. I go to my friends' house and watch TV.

I had two older brothers who kept dirty mags under their mattresses. They didn't know I knew.

I've always wanted to work with young people from disadvantaged areas.

My success as a young athlete contributed to major disagreements between my parents and my mom had to make the ultimate decision to leave.

When I was given a tricycle, aged eight, I'd disappear for hours and do my own thing.