I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.
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I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.
There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life - different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships.
I love spending time with young people. I love to hear about what they think. It keeps me young. And they need role models.
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
Young people can create beautiful things.
Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
By the time we're adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures.
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