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What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.

I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them. It's not easy being known as 'the kid from the TV show.' Not in school it's not.

Most of the time, people think they went to high school with me.

Friends of mine were the creators and executive producers of 'Damages,' people I knew from graduate school.

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate.

Even the pre-schoolers are like, 'I watch you on The Jonas Brothers.' And my own kids. I have been in the greatest movies, even some for kids, and they were never impressed until I did 'Jonas L.A.'

For the most part, I've stayed as far away as possible from high school movies. I just don't find them to be that relatable to everybody? They become like this: 'Look at that period of time. Isn't that interesting?'

I think my parents were high when they named me.

Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.