I became very successful at a young age, ... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

The age difference seemed a little awkward, ... but the movie is about that.

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy.

A hallmark of the successful is that they generate more opportunities than they find

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.