To be honest, I haven’t seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there’s only so much time and there’s nothing that really drives me to do it.

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she’s only 11, but you know, I think it’s great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

I think anybody who’s doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you’re a teen idol by default.

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I’d want to set it in a place that was familiar to me – Manhattan, where I’d grown up – and I’d model the characters on myself and my friends.

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than ‘Twilight.’

Material Girls was so different for me, I’d never done a teen movie.