"If I Stay" is "just a basic story about love of life and the family," Chloe Grace Moretz said about her latest film during a publicity tour stop at the Ritz Carlton Hotel.
"I think no matter how old you are, you can have a love of life and family," said the lead actress of the film adaptation of Gayle Forman' best-selling young-adult novel.
In another interview with Latin Post, Moretz said she believes in a line from "If I Stay," which goes, "Sometimes you make decisions in life, and sometimes these decisions make you."
"I think that every decision I have made in life has been made by the universe, and that's how everything has come together. I have never forced anything," Moretz explained.
"Sure, I have made some conscious decisions, but I think most of it's just been, I work hard for certain things and it either happens or it doesn't," she added.
In "If I Stay," Moretz plays a shy high school outcast named Mia, who has to choose between achieving her dreams or devoting herself to Adam, the man she loves played by Jamie Blackley.
While Adam is an aspiring rock star, Mia is a cello virtuoso who aspires to attend Juilliard.
Having started her acting career at five, Moretz has starred in films with several prominent actors including Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Ryan Reynolds.
To prepare for her role Mia, the 17-year-old actress studied the cello for seven months, Classicalite has learned.
This helped R.J. Cutler and the "If I Stay" crew make her look convincing in performance scenes considering the film only has nine visual effects personnel.
With the direction of Cutler and screenplay written by Shauna Cross, Forman said she was satisfied with how her novel was adapted for the big screen.
"Everything I saw, from the drafts of the scripts to what I saw on set, to what I saw when I saw the first cut, to the final cut, to the music, to the way (Cutler) cast it, everything along the way was like one more puzzle piece put in play, " Forman told News OK.
"And now there's the final product, and I couldn't be happier," the author added.