People like to make children into little grown-ups.

I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

It's easier to see children as mini adults than it is to imagine or to remember what it is to be a child again.

I remember reading To Kill A Mockingbird when I was 12. What I liked about it is that it was all seen through a child's eyes. It was Harper Lee going back and writing it from the way a child would see those things.

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

I'm surprised by how much I remember.

I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.