You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity.

I went to public school up until junior high.

There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it's a first-person narrative.

Both my parents work in film. They're crew. I love movies, and I just wanted to be involved. I got really lucky. I auditioned for a while and then started making films.

I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how long it was and how it was 36 hours of hell .

It's this weird thing that I always feel like I have to gauge in myself, like, "Don't come on too strong because you won't get your way."

There's nothing stronger than a woman protecting her child