ow do you feel about playing one of the few strong teenage roles around?

I feel good. I think there are more teenage roles than are really recognised, but I feel good about it.

I don't know if necessarily I'd say it's a good influence, I wouldn't say that, even - if I was playing a good character - that anyone should ever be influenced by films [or] should ever be influenced to change themselves or be like a film in the sense [of] a role model type.

I think if you say, "Well, we watch this movie because there's good role models in it, that's the right thing you should do," - well, okay, but then what are you going to say about this other film that you like that's maybe a little darker?

I think that we have to be very careful in putting labels or jobs to our films. I think they should be kept as entertainment, and if they move you or they influence you to think that's one thing, but to change your life or political motives, I've never really had a real strong head for it.