My feeling is that I don't really care about the genre or the size of the movie. I care about the quality of the writing and the quality of the characters.

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

I care about writing music and playing my music.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.

It's funny: the reason I did 'Beautiful Creatures' was the same reason I did everything else - even though it was a genre film and existed at a more studio level, the script and the characters were so well written.