When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.

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.

I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.

After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

There are so many actors that I've worked with that I'd like to work with again and there are so many girls. So often when you're up for a role, you're the only girl, and people think that a positive thing: "You get to be the only girl here!" That's not an exciting kind of idea to me.

Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.