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I just couldn't get into the high school scene at all. I was fat, ugly and weird. I just couldn't do the makeup and the hairdos.

I was cast in a film toward the end of high school. Even then, I wasn't sure.

I was not interested by cinema when I was young.

I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.

I didn't want to act in high school, because I was sick of auditioning for Nickelodeon, Disney mean girls, or the cheerleader.

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.

I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.