I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.
I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.
Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.