It’s hard to find a film about a strong woman: Dakota Fanning

Twilight star Dakota Fanning has opened up about her younger days and says one of the downsides of becoming a child star is seeing people “think they know you”.

Fanning, 20, who shot to fame after appearing in 2003’s Uptown Girls opposite the late Brittany Murphy, has frequently appeared in roles well beyond her years, reported the New York Daily News.

“Because people saw me grow up, there’s this weird sort of ownership that they feel for me and that is difficult. Because it’s not real; it’s in their minds. People don’t know me as much as they think they do. I’ll be walking down the street and someone will say ‘hello’, and I’ll go, ‘Oh, hi!’ I’ll think I must know this person if they said ‘hello’, but then you realise, you don’t know them,” she said.

Fanning said that she is looking forward to directing and producing now. “It’s very hard to find a film about a strong woman — one that doesn’t have anything to do with a guy or the love of a guy or the heartbreak of a guy. Is that the only crisis that women deal with: love and loss of love and sadness? There’s more to life than that,” she said.