I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

When romance is done well in a movie, its awesome.

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who are really good.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

I'm lucky that I got to start acting when I was so young, and people put me in these movies. A lot of people don't get to play these parts because they start a little older.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

I kind of help solve world peace and world hunger. That's just kind of an average day off for me.

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment.

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.

Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

I was just thinking how unfortunate it'd be to be a fat girl named Candy.