Q:  I loved the part in the movie about tasting the lozenge, which tastes like an idea, essentially the feeling of melancholy. If you could make your own candy and have it taste like something – like an idea – what would your candy taste like?
A:  That's a very good question! Umm, I'd probably want it to taste like helping people. Because there are so many people in the world that don't have anything, and I feel that America is kind of protected from all that. If you go to out of America, there is real poverty, like where the tsunami hit. I want to help people in Mexico. I want to make a foundation for dogs all over the world because I feel so bad for them. I just, I just, I love dogs, and I love people too, and I want to help them. 

Q:  What’s it like being a movie star?
A:  It's kind of chaotic, really. I don't really think of it as being a movie star, because I'm just doing what I love to do, and I don't think anybody really does it just because they want to be famous. I'm just another person on TV, and that's how I like to think about it.

Q:  Last week you spoke at the Crystal Cathedral in front of thousands of people and on television. Do you ever get nervous?
A:  Nope. The only time I get nervous, two times, is doing math problems in front of my class – can't stand that! – and I don't like performing in front of people that I know. That is, sometimes you can do it, but sometimes it feels weird. I can do it in front of people that I don't know, but in front of people that I do know, in a small group – I can't do that.

Q:  How is it being a Christian in Hollywood, in the movie industry? Is it difficult or easy?
A:  You just go with yourself and you pray, but I don't like forcing things on people, like, you know, talking about what they think about God, because sometimes it makes them feel uncomfortable. And I think, you know, everybody can believe what they believe, and I believe what I believe, and that's okay. 

Q:  How do you go about choosing scripts?
A:  Well I haven't really gotten to choose scripts yet!  [ laughter ]

Q:  Who chooses them for you?
A:  Well, you don't really choose them, you audition for them. But I have an agent, and he looks at stuff and brings them in. I audition, and if I get it, that's great, and if I don't, you know, too bad!

Q:  What are the criteria that you have?
[Mother answers]: We pray about it. We pray about every role for AnnaSophia, and our prayer has always been to follow God’s plan for her life. If it’s a meaty role, it’s worth doing.

Q:  There must be a lot of sacrifice that you as a parent have gone through, to allow her this kind of opportunity. Does AnnaSophia recognize the sacrifice?  [ laughter ]  No pressure.
A:  Yeah!  I do. I think I do. My mom has, she has sacrificed her career for me and my dad has started his own business, now, and I realize what they've done, but I think it's – I think it was kind of meant to be, because I think my mom kind of enjoys this, because, not working, I think it might be kind of fun, and traveling around, and having free time. But I really thank her, a lot, for doing this, because it's a really big thing for me, and I don't think lots of other kids have their parents going about and going all over the world just for them.