10 Questions for Dakota Fanning

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I really feel comfortable with both. On the set there's always doubles and stand-ins and things like that, so I'm never the only kid.

I hear you'd like to take a turn behind the camera.

I would love to direct someday. I've learned a lot from watching directors I've worked with, like Steven Spielberg and Gary Winick, whom I worked with on Charlotte's Web. I would love to have that relationship with another actor.

Do you have much time for Girl Scouts these days?

Last year my sister and I sold 750 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, so we were pretty excited about that. At $4 a box, baby, it was, like, $3,000. We did it door-to-door in Los Angeles in my aunt's neighborhood. It's getting to be that time of year again, so my sister and I will be out there soon. People didn't really notice it was us last year. When I knocked on one door, one person said, "Who is it?" I said, "Girl Scouts." They said, "We're not home." I didn't push it--I was like, no Thin Mints for you!