“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”

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.