At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

Acting is a challenge at times. I mean, when you have scenes where you're jumping into a mascot bear to travel back in time, and you try to make that seem real. For me, I'm a person that has a pretty wild imagination, just kind of letting that run wild and sort of just doing the best you can to not feel stupid.

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.

Getting to do different genres of movies means you're gonna have different types of situations. So I want to try and do every type of genre there is out there.

Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.

I love getting dressed up doing the whole premiere look.

I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.