Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

I come from a background of independent films.

Any time you get a role that's a young person, that resembles what it's like to be a teenager, I always kind of jump at it.

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he always had this metaphor of an egg, of a little chick pecking her way out of a shell, and in one scene in the kitchen there are all these white plates on a wall and then in the middle there is a yellow plate so even that looks like an egg. And a lot of the furniture was almost sculpted in that way as well. It was really cool to see that.

I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15.