Asa Butterfield

“When you're acting, you do have to prepare yourself for doing that. You have to leave behind - or you try and leave behind - anything that's going on in your personal life.”

“You might only get three takes to do a scene; sometimes it takes longer than that to find those moments.”

“When things don't go your way, you brush it aside and carry on. Don't take what you have for granted. Enjoy what you have.”

“I like science fiction. I am quite a technologically kind of up-to-date person. I like seeing what the new developments are.”

“I've been in a few films that have been adapted and, as an actor, the amount of resources and things you can gain just from reading the story, as well as the script, are so massive that it's something you just can't put down.”

“I don't really like scary movies. I mean, I didn't as a kid, but I think I got a bit better now. I've been easing myself into it, starting off with the less spooky ones.”

“I do have people looking up to me, which is still kind of weird to me. 'I'm like, 'Why? What have I done?'”

“I never wanted to be home-schooled. I didn't like the idea of being home-schooled.”

“One of the things that I really enjoyed playing with Ender was how he's constantly struggling between his brother and his sister. It's like he's got two sides to him. And I've always wanted to play a darker character, and in this film and in the novel, Ender has his moments where he isn't a glorified hero.”

“When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.”

“A kid actor to an adult actor is a tricky one.”

“I don't like to set myself goals because then you might fail to reach them. I just go with the flow.”

“I think I'm good at playing dramatic and serious roles, but it's not necessarily what I want to keep doing.”

“As an actor, depending on who you are, you might be stopped on the street and might not get all the privacy you want, but I'd rather have that than no human connection whatsoever.”

“I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.”

“I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.”

“I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect with, whether that's a science fiction or a period piece. It doesn't really matter as long as they're original and I have something to do with the character.”

“I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.”

“I'm very optimistic. I'm happy-go-lucky, I guess. I try to be.”

“For me, not just the character of 'Ender', but the whole world is so beautifully crafted in the novel that I wasn't sure how it could be brought to the screen - but Gavin has done it justice, and he's done it amazingly.”