There is a danger, if you cast someone who is 18, 19 or 20 to play 14 or 15, that very subtly, almost unconsciously, the audience is, "Oh, this isn't so bad."

I think the other honest attraction was that I just grew up loving watching TV and loving watching film, and there's so many directors and actors that I dreamed of working with, I just really wanted to take a crack at it and see if I could ever work with some of those.

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

If I'm going to do something, I really put everything into it and I want it to mean something to me.

I had a mustache when I was 13.

I'm very goal oriented.

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.