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While less dedicated, world-famous child stars would be content to fritter away the last moments of their pre-teen earning years by playing with solid-gold Barbie dolls or by getting a head start on a lifelong substance abuse problem, the preternaturally ambitious Dakota Fanning is already thinking several steps ahead in her already impressive career:

"I would love to direct someday," Fanning told Time magazine for editions on newsstands Monday. "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."

Lest you think that the 12-year-old actress is not taking the time to enjoy her success, she's planning to wait at least three months after she wins her first Oscar for Hound Dog (aka The Untitled Dakota Fanning Rape Project) to call up her agent and demand, "Listen, you get me in the director's chair for Indiana Jones IV or you'll never see another fucking commission check out of me again, you understand? What? I'm going to pretend you didn't even say that hack Spielberg thinks he's directing it. War of the Worlds would have gone straight to video without me telling him where to put the fucking camera."