'Virgin Suicides' was such a big movie to me as a teenage girl. It blew me away.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.
I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.
But 'Sixteen Candles' is the only movie I could watch over and over and over without getting sick of it.
I watched '12 Angry Men' when I was a kid. It blew me away definitely.
Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.
It sounds so negative of me to say, but I don't feel like there were many coming-of-age films when I was growing up. I think that when I was a teenager, I felt really misrepresented in the teenage roles that I was watching onscreen. Especially in women.
I was 18 years old when I booked 'Youth in Revolt,' and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie - and even then, I didn't feel like I had made it.
I loved movies, growing up. They brought me so much joy.
Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.
When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in boxes: the virginal good girl, the really sarcastic asexual one. I wanted to do something that represented how I felt then.