Latest Emma Forrest Quotes from Interviews

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• I do think everything that happens in American pop culture sort of prescribes for England and does end up happening there six months later, maybe a year.

  Emma Forrest

  Thinking, Culture, Pop Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think that's the function of a lot of psychiatrists and therapists, is keeping people afloat just long enough for them to get older.

  Emma Forrest

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There is that doll dress-up quality of adorable teenage girl writer, and I never felt either as adorable as I was supposed to be, or as dark as the rumors, you know, "She must have slept with the editor," and I was like, "Oh my god, I'm still a virgin." It was very strange.

  Emma Forrest

  Girl, Teenage, Dark

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think it's sort of the hypothetical point where communism and fascism meet. They love tragedy, and they love surface beauty. You just watch it play out over and over in the media. It was the English edition of Glamour who were looking for stories of Iraqi war widows, but specified that they had to be attractive.

  Emma Forrest

  War, Thinking, Tragedy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Someone asked me the other day, "Oh your story is like Cameron Crowe's, he has the same thing of having been a teenage journalist," but he was a guy and you just add gender into the mix, it's a 16-year-old girl with adults and rock stars, and it's tough.

  Emma Forrest

  Girl, Teenage, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Thank God the Internet didn't exist when I was 15, 16. I knew people were tearing me apart, but my God, if there had been a net and commenters and I would have been reading them - it was bad enough as it was. To grow up in the media eye, I'm glad it happened, but that was definitely not healthy being around adults all the time.

  Emma Forrest

  Growing Up, Reading, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• From such a young age, I was raised and have raised myself on film to such an extent, that it has sometimes bled into my reality. There are times I've felt very Mulholland Drive, where people's dream worlds overlap with each other.

  Emma Forrest

  Dream, Reality, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

  Emma Forrest

  Mistake, Thinking, Psychotic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I didn't know there was something really wrong, because everyone was crazy. It's just that everyone else was still functional. I didn't realize that I was any worse off.

  Emma Forrest

  Crazy, Realizing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• A lot of the time in my recurring dreams, before I was diagnosed, iconic people would either be good or evil figures. I remember dreaming really basic stuff like trying to navigate the London underground, but then Paul Newman would be the only one who would direct me to the right trains. And I'm trying to remember who would direct me to the wrong ones.

  Emma Forrest

  Dream, People, Evil

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint.

  Emma Forrest

  Childhood, Disappoint, Generous

• I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much.

  Emma Forrest

  Character, Moon, Two

• I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. That's the way it should be. If it's the other way around, you have a problem.

  Emma Forrest

  Teenage, Self, Wish

• Jeff Bridges says that the reason he's one of the few stars in Hollywood whose made his marriage last for decades is that every time they think there's no more doors left to walk through in the room, they just keep looking and keep looking until they find one.

  Emma Forrest

  Stars, Thinking, Doors

• Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better.

  Emma Forrest

  Writing, Get Better, Pages