I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're embroiled in. I mean, we're a very violent species, physically and emotionally.

As I've become older and more self-conscious, I'm more aware of films and the film industry. I'm sure you've seen that, but the publicity, the public side of this world is pretty scary to me.

The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

I wasn't a child star, so hopefully I can keep my head on straight.

I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.

I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.

Change takes time. But, it also takes people.

It is lightning that strikes, not thunder.

It is only when you face your fears and doubts that you could begin to discover some hidden extraordinary abilities in you.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.

As hard as I've tried, I don't know how not to be adorable.

You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge.

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

Everybody thinks I'm the weirdo in the family.

One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.