I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.

Warren [Beatty] loves to talk about his experiences with [Elia] Kazan.

What's exciting to me now is the idea in participating in a landscape of moviemaking that's completely different - the way you can make a movie with a 5D or something and what's going to come out of that. Especially the generation under us who grew up with the internet. When they are making films in the next ten years, they're gonna be so different from what we've seen before because their whole worldview is so different.

Even when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.

So many times you can't get a foot in the door unless you're already in the room.

I had an audition process that went on for a long time, and I got to spend a lot of time with the guys who are directing the film. Getting to be around them and being around the world a little bit has been the main experience so far. I did my audition on the Millennium Falcon for one of my screen tests, which was pretty cool.

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