People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.

I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

Well, we became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!