I really want my agent to make sure they write a part in the next Airbender movie for me. I'll be really upset if I don't get to be a waterbender or something.

I really connected with martial arts. I'd always had a fantasy as a kid of being a ninja warrior, so it definitely answered that sort of need in my psyche, too - a need to be superpowerful.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years

I feel that the connection with children and mothers is so strong in places where there are not so many 'things' to get in the way, no electronic distraction devices, no high-tech baby equipment, just a mother carrying her little one everywhere, sharing a family bed and having the help of all the other women around to raise the baby.

What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.

I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.