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"I just think that people are so weird about nudity and the human body. Sex is not bad, naked bodies are not bad and naked bodies don't always have to be connected to sex."
"I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen."
"I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living."
"I love horror films, but it's more than an adrenaline rush for me. I love them because I know they scare me. It's kind of like I go on roller coasters, but I'm terrified of roller coasters, sort of thing."
"I felt much better when I started to become myself a bit more and to spend time with people who I genuinely liked as opposed to the people I felt I should be spending time with."
"I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about."
"My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?"
"Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel alive. They're also about betrayal."
"With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose."
"Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home."
"I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?"
"A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more."
"I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games."
"My family are very supportive and always have been. They weren't the kind of parents that pushed me into it. I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions."
"Often, people who want to make interesting films simply don't have the money to do it."
"I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games. In a more traditional nerd sense, I just read lots of books and I enjoyed school."
"For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds."
"It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?"
"I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me."
"I’m torn. I want an ‘R’ (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it."