I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.

I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

Barry Levinson is such a deceptive director, because he seems really lackadaisical. I'd never worked with him before, and I almost got the impression that he didn't really care that much because he was so laid-back. Sometimes we'd finish filming hours before the day was over, which is just unthinkable in any other film experience I've had. I couldn't believe that Barry had the passion for it.