If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My audiences get younger all the time.
Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.
It's really rare as a teenager to be offered a role that actually resembles what it's like to be a teenager, because there are so many stereotypes that might be attractive to watch, but make you think: 'Who is that? Who has that life at 16?'
My American audiences are pretty mixed. I get all sorts of people, old and young. It's nice.
I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.
Teenagers have no advocate. I think any other minority so maligned by Hollywood would have pickets around the theater saying, 'We are not just idiots.'
This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America.
Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.