I'd Like To Be Dakota Fanning When

I Make Dark Dramas, Movies About People Living In Desperate Fear Who Then Overcome That Fear And Find A Heroic Side To Themselves.

I Don't Really Think I Have The Personality. I Am Not Very External. I Don't Want To Dance On The Table And Do Impressions. So I Think That The Way I Approach It Is Really Loving Story. That's My First Love - The Words. The Words And The Story And How To Create Images. I Guess I Come At That As A Director. I Think That's Much More In My Personality To Be A Director, So That's Kind Of Informed My Acting.

There Is Nothing More Beautiful Than Finding Your Course As You Believe You Bob Aimlessly In The Current. And Wouldn't You Know That Your Path Was There All Along, Waiting For You To Knock, Waiting For You To Become. This Path Does Not Belong To Your Parents, Your Teachers, Your Leaders, Or Your Lovers. Your Path Is Your Character Defining Itself More And More Every Day.

There Are Lots Of Futurists That Spend Their Whole Life Trying To Figure Out Who We're Going To Be In 40, 50, 60, 100 Years. That's The Great Thing About Science Fiction.

If You Had Been A Public Figure From The Time You Were A Toddler, If You'd Had To Fight For A Life That Felt Real And Honest And Normal Against All Odds, Than Maybe To You Might Value Privacy Above All Else. I Have Given Everything Up There From The Time That I Was Three-years Old. That's Reality Show Enough, Don't You Think?