“Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and wit...” — Chris Crutcher Quote

“Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.”

“'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.”

“I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.”

“I wanted to do a Chris Farley movie where he's in rehab for half of the film, and for the other half of the movie, he's doing his 'SNL' stuff and his movies.”

“There's nobody as sexy as Robinson Cano in the box. I had a coach, Chris Sheff, who always told me to be as sexy as you can in the box.”

“I've always been a huge fan of Chris Rock.”