I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

I think the main reason a lot of child stars don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute and then all of a sudden see them as having more depth.

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

I'm incredibly naive.

If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard. No, it'd be uglier. I'd probably be dead.

You always fear, when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story, that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson...