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19 quotes by Stephen Chbosky

Stephen Chbosky (/ʃəˈbɒski/; born January 25, 1970) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director best known for writing the New York Times bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), as well as for screenwriting and directing the film version of the same book, starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film Rent, and was co-creator, executive producer,...
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When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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'... →

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'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... →

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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... →

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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 three people down and they... →

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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 theirs, there... →

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'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... →

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

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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... →

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