You always worry that everybody is secretly talking about you behind your back, everybody is secretly making fun of your voice, your figure, the way that you are during puberty, but it turned out, in real life, everybody was. On movie sets, they were all talking about these things, because they had to.

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

I've been accused of being pretentious and insufferable, and I don't really know what I can say about that. I never got good grades in school, but I did read the dictionary for fun. That was just the kind of stuff that I liked to do. I can't apologize for that.

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 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.

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

Sure, I love to read, and I love to learn, but I was always nerdy that way.