Quotes from Asa Butterfield

My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.

To have that normality to come back to, to totally relax and not have to deal with a lot of the pressure that's put on young actors makes it a lot easier.

I've never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film.

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

I would go back to school after working on a movie, and it didn't feel I missed anything, like I had been away. I did mature pretty quickly, though, but I still sound pretty immature sometimes.

I work and come home and just have a type of normal home life. It's what I've always wanted. I've never felt like I'm pressured into doing something and that I've got loads of responsibility.

People think when you're moving in Zero-G, it's like moving in jelly. But it's not. You're completely free to move however fast as you want.

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.

When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.

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 already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason for me to not be in school.

I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.

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

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

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.

I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much about, but being an actor gives yourself the opportunity to really immerse yourself in that world and learn things. It's one of the great things about what I do.

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