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

I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.

I don't want to be one of those young actors who is around for a couple of years and melts off the scene.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene, because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren't really about the actors; they're about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes.

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.

I want to show that I'm a real teenager, not some fantasized Hollywood kid.

I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.