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Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

When I was 4, my parents took me to see a musical, and I was like, 'I want to do that!' I started doing all sorts of musical camps and a lot of professional theater. I took dance classes for 10 years, too - I was never the most amazing kid in the other classes, but tap stuck with me for some reason.

I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

From the age of three to 15, I wanted to be a ballerina and trained really, really hard. Then I had that classic movie story moment, where I had an injury and had to give up my dream.

Before dance came into my life, I don't really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.

That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.