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

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.

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

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.

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

Our lives are not just measured in years. They are measured in the lives we touch around us.

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.