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 take more chances.

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 this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

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 experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

It's too bad you're not gay. Then again, if you were gay, I would never date you. You're a mess." You know, Patrick? If I were gay, I'd want to date you." Of course.

I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.

I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.