When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.

Being a teenager is hard.

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.