“I usually do indies.” (2008)

“How could we want to erase happiness of our memory, even if some unhappiness came next?”

On her favorite designer
“Oh, I don’t know­. Anything that’s beat up. I kind of like to look like a hobo.” (2008)

“I’m getting a BlackBerry. I don’t even have an e-mail address. I just need a phone that’s not gonna break.” (2008)

“I’m a night person. I mean, look at me.” (2008)

“I don’t think I have to be rebellious. I don’t feel stifled in any way but I know so many people who are. It’s just such a basic, fundamental simple thing to be reminded of that all you have to be is yourself and human and live here and do what makes you happy. That’s why, you can talk to anyone from any country, any age or gender and you get this. You’ve lived this or felt this before.” (2007)

“No, me a comic! Not at all.” (2007)

I never sought out acting, but I always practiced my autograph because I loved pens- I’d write my name on everything.” (2007)

“I typically don’t describe myseld for people who don’t know me.” (2007)

“I’m sort of lanky, and I’ll be in jeans and a white T-Shirt or a white tank top.” (2007)

“I feel like I’m pretty chill.” (2007)

“This is never something that I sought out. For most actors, it’s such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there’s an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them. In my case, it was never like that. It was just about working with the people that I want to work with, and telling the stories that I want to tell, you know? And, you’re right, it was also because my whole family is involved in the entertainment industry in some way. My brother’s a grip. My mom’s a scriptwriter. My dad’s a director. So it’s like, at heart I’m a below-the-line girl.” (2006)

“I’m not attracted to certain genres. There’s a few things I haven’t done. I would love to do a period piece. I haven’t really done one yet.” (2007)

“I love horror movies. My all-time favorite movie, and I’ve been asked this like a thousand times recently, is definitely The Shining.” (2007)
 

“I really loved The Ring. It scared the crap out of me. They’re not as heavy-handed as American films. They tend to take their time a little bit and let you think for yourself before they hammer you in the face with smashing people’s brains in and dragging them off in the woods to be slaughtered. I think they’re smarter. I mean not to generalize about stuff like that but they tend to be really well thought out. I really like them. I like their slow deliberateness.” (2007)

“I like when all of a sudden you’re watching the movie and it slows down, and you’re like, “Oh my God. Something’s definitely going to happen.” And you know it, but when it does, it scares you just as much. I like all types of horror movies. I definitely don’t exclude slasher movies. I love them also. But I think this movie, there’s something nice and deliberate about it. The Pang brothers, they take their time. There’s something about the pacing that’s really unnerving about it to me.” (2007)

“I stopped going to school when I was in, like, seventh grade. That whole hierarchy just sort of comes crumbling down, and it doesn’t mean anything anymore. But in doing that at a really young age, I cemented relationships that really are pretty solid. All of them have known me since I was really young. They’ve all been there through my first movie and the initial craziness of what’s happened to me.”
 

“People don’t recognize me on the streets, like, ever. It’s totally never changed.” (2007)

“I think so many girls are still living with their parents and are fighting for a little bit of independence which most people are. I mean like you’re 14 and you’re like ‘Come on! Leave me alone a little bit.’ I think a lot of people have a lot of animosity in their families and you really do treat the ones that you love the worst. I think what’s great about this movie is that they all come to realize that the people that they really, truly need are each other, that it’s their family. You have to learn to accept it. You do treat the people that you love the worst. I don’t know. I think a lot of people go through that.” (2007)

“Canada has become like my second home. I’m there constantly. I love it there. The one thing is I’m very thin blooded and it gets a little chilly up there — not my favorite thing. I’ve worked in L.A. once or twice. It would be nice to work here more but if we’re going to go anywhere, I’d really [like Canada]. It’s a pleasant place to be. I have a lot of friends there now.” (2007)
 

“I was about 9 or actually I was 8 when I first started auditioning. I auditioned for about a year before I got anything.” (2007)

“We got a call from an agent that was in the audience at my school for my Christmas performance and my parents were both in the business so they were like, ‘We don’t want to be stage moms.’ My dad was a stage manager and he’s like, ‘Oh my God. I don’t want my kid…’ We were just sort of reluctant and I think I just remembered thinking ‘Actually that might be really cool. I might want to go on a few auditions. I might work.’ It took a really long time until I was totally over it and the last audition I went to which I didn’t even want to go to it and my mom said, ‘Well, this is the last one. You don’t have to go to anymore.’ And that was the first movie I got.” (2007)
 

“When I was little, I thought if you had asked me that, I would have been, ‘Absolutely. For sure. I’m going to direct a movie by the time I’m 16.’ And I obviously did not. I changed a little bit. Maybe. But it’s so much work and it’s so much more than just standing on set and making a movie. There’s so much more to deal with other than that and I don’t know if I would want to do any of that. I’m way more into just the creative… I would write movies. I think that’s it. I couldn’t see myself doing that, at least not now. Ask me like in a few more years and it may be a completely different answer.” (2007)

“I think my favorite director that I could work with now, it would definitely be Martin Scorcese. I’m sure everyone says that.” (2007)

 
“I would love to work with… Jodie [Foster] directs films. I would die to be in a movie directed.” (2007)

“There’s so many actors. They are so amazing. There are a few young actors – one of them I actually got to work with. I worked with Emile Hirsch on a movie called Into The Wild which was really a great experience. There are a few others that I think are really just great. Finally we have some really amazing talent to look forward to. I think Evan Rachel Wood is phenomenal. She blows me away. There are so many others. I love Natalie Portman.” (2007)

 
“They don’t sit down and give me pointed advice like ‘Kristen, you should do this and this.’ They’ve always been really supportive in that you can drop out of this at any time you want. Basically you just have to make yourself happy and you’ve got to do what you want to do. And they’re just really motivating, sort of a driving force, which is something I really need.” (2007)

On The Messengers
“You don’t do stuff like this just because it’s good for your career, but because it’s fun.” (2007)

“I really want to be a writer… [Poetry] was a phase, now I just want to write a novel. May one day include a screenplay.” (2007)

“My family are all movie people and I really love what I’m doing right now. But I definitely want to go to school. I want to be a writer. That’s what I’m really into. My mom is Australian, so I might go to university in Sydney. I can’t wait.” (2007)

“I’m not like Jodie Foster or Mary Stuart Masterson, or some of the other women I’ve worked with, who are almost compulsive doers. They’re just powerhouses. I like focusing on one thing and taking it slow. When I’m at school I think I might just be at school.” (2007)

“It’s funny. When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you’re a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family–that’s your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me. And I still maintain those friendships. My friends who are still going to school are still totally caught up in it. When they graduate, they’re going to experience the exact same thing that I did. I just went through it when I was in the seventh grade as opposed to the twelfth.” (2006)

“I grew up with boys. I’m the only girl in my family besides my mom.” (2005)

“A lot of people ask ‘what kind of movies do you want to do? What types of roles do you want to do?’ I really don’t want to get pigeonholed in any type of role. It’s nice to do different things and play different characters. If you’re just the same person all the time you’re not an actor, you’re just kind of a personality and that’s not what I’m after.” (2005)

“I liked E.T. and I liked Spaceballs. That’s a funny one.” (2005)

“We were alone when my brother broke his arm on me. We were running to go get the phone and I wanted to pick it up and he wanted to pick it up and he got it first and I tried to get it from him and he hit me with the phone and, in hitting me, he broke his arm. Then, my parents came home and we had to spend the rest of the night in the emergency room which didn’t make them too happy.” (2005)

“I was raised on classic rock. My parents are kind of old rocker/hippy kind of people. I like Led Zeppelin and I love The Beatles. I like The Cars, I like The Band and The Doors. I like some music now but not most. I’m not too into labels. That’s gotten really popular lately and it’s pretentious and I’m not into it but I like Interpol and stuff like that.” (2005)

“I’m in a kind of college prep program right now and I’m definitely not going to lose sight of my education just because I want to be an actor.” (2005)

“I went to school up until like the seventh grade and I know a lot of people who have graduated from high school and everyone gets a major dose of perspective on who their real friends are and what their real values are and what is important to them and that kind of happened for me just a little bit earlier. I don’t really mind that. I still have my really close friends. I still have my family. I’m really family-oriented so no, I don’t have a problem with it at all.” (2005)

“I worked with her but Jodie Foster is obviously, a role model. She’s not just an actress, she’s not one-dimensional. She has more than one creative outlet. She’s a writer, producer, a director. She has a pretty level head on her shoulders and I like the idea that she can keep her personal life private and separate from what she does. I admire most of her values. She’s pretty cool.” (2005)

“I remember when I was little, I didn’t have any inhibitions. I wasn’t embarrassed about doing anything. When you get older, I don’t know what it is, it’s not that you get more insecure, you’re just maybe more self-aware. It’s just kind of something that happens. You try to do the best you can and that’s pretty much all you can do.” (2005)