That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

You get bummed out, and then you go, "Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself." That kind of helps.

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.

Elia Kazan - the films he made were such a big deal for me when I was growing up.

[Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.

One of the big takeaways from that experience [in Blue Jasmin] was just what a thrill it was to act with somebody like Cate Blanchett operating on that caliber. Because what she was doing was very powerful. T