[John Hurt] just really gifted, and I had a great time working with him and [am] very lucky to have worked with him.

While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.

[John] Hughes was well aware that to ignore the seriousness of young people is to encourage things like Columbine, so you might want to listen. And we were all pretty serious, a little bit, in high school. Some a little more than others.

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less.

Just because you’ve only been alive for fifteen years doesn’t mean you’re less anything except old. That’s all it means. It doesn’t mean you’re less experienced. It doesn’t mean you’re less intelligent. It doesn’t mean you’re less sensitive. It doesn’t mean you take things less seriously. It’s like, these are younger human beings, meaning don’t, because they’re only ten, start thinking that they don’t know what you’re talking about -because they do. Don’t leave people out in the cold, and don’t talk down to people -don’t. It never works out.