Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often.

I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy.

I think it's cool to come out of somewhere where you're being pushed into this mold and then you figure out in that who you are.