“It’s good to be 18. For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.”

— Ezra Miller

Interview, Interview Magazine, 2010 http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/ezra-miller/#_

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