My mom has always been a big advocate, especially in the gay, lesbian, transsexual and bisexual community, so for me it's always been a part of my soul.

With every single role, you're not going to get a role unless you invest your whole heart into it.

One of the fans had a poster that said, 'I'm a Peeta-file. That was probably the best one.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

Every time I read anything, whether it be a book, a script, or anything, I automatically imagine myself as the boy in the plot. I don't know why. Seriously, anything. If I'm reading a magazine article or whatever, I picture myself as the kid people are talking about. It's really weird. I don't know why I do that.

If you're directing and acting, I feel like they both suffer, to some extent. There are so many elements to it. If you do acting and directing, at the same time, it's not going to be as good, I believe, as if you focus on one or the other.