My family are very supportive and always have been. They weren't the kind of parents that pushed me into it. I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?