“And then he says something like this ... "I would die for you. But I won't live for you." Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.”

American film director, screenwriter, and author

Stephen Chbosky is an American film director, screenwriter, and author. He is best known for the bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, published in 1999, and for writing and directing its 2012 film adaptation. He later directed Wonder in 2017 and the film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen in 2021. In 2019, he published his first psychological horror novel, Imaginary Friend.