I don't think anyone can call a movie like 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' a horror movie. It's a jolt. It's a series of jolts followed by a quick one-liner that's wallpapered with an MTV rock & roll soundtrack. That's not horror to me.
I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.
'Pretty In Pink' was a huge hit for me.
Can't Hardly Wait was a movie everyone wanted. I wanted the lead girl sooo badly, I think it was Lauren Ambrose. I wanted it so badly, I kept auditioning. I didn't get it, but I think everyone that auditioned - because everyone went out for it - got some screen time in it, like me.
In Cancún, I felt like I had walked into an American teen movie.
[Lauren Ambrose's] character [in Can't Hardly Wait] feels real and unexaggerated and becomes sort of a heroine archetype. I think that was cool. It wasn't in every one of those comedies.
I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.
People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it.
Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.
Paul Gleason played the teacher. I just tortured him as best I could. 'Cause he wasn't one of the kids, you know, so it was okay. He was great.
Once we played for the Princess of Monaco in Paris. We were the biggest ducks ever, wearing rented tuxedos. We trashed the party, took a bunch of girls and champagne in limos underneath the Eiffel Tower, and set up an acoustic show. It was like a Hilary Duff movie.
But I loved 'Clueless'. I still think 'Clueless' is a great movie.
Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.
I want to take acting lessons first. But I'd love to find the right film, a 'Breakfast Club' kind of thing.
I have so many people come up to me, 20-some years later, and saying, "I loved you in Jawbreaker!".
Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.
