I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I guess I was a philosophical child.

I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more feminine. I had to look a certain way. And it's something that you want to suffer in silence, but I would go onto movie sets and they would bring out bras that were basically binders, because there were continuity problems between months.

There were things that I knew that I was going to keep to myself.

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

The thing is, with writing, it's form or content. You need to write about something interesting or you need to write about it in an interesting way.

Children change a lot in terms of personality. Camaraderie that you feel with somebody might not be there a year later.

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.