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.

I think girls like vampires because they are mysterious and they really don't know what they are about. I think a lot of girls are attracted to that.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

The most important thing to having a long career, as an actor, is diversity and being able to play different types of characters in different types of movies. I want to keep acting, all my life. In order to do that, I think it is important to go and do the bigger tentpole box office movies, and then also do more character roles.

My personal style has seen so many highs and lows. Probably more lows than highs.