Warren [Beatty] was very adamant and very encouraging of me to direct. It's definitely something that I'd like to pursue more in the future.

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.

I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

I had one line. My two larger scenes had gone fine, and then on that day I screwed up that line over and over and over again. And every time I screwed it up, they can't use the whole thing because they're only using the one shot [in Blue Jasmin]. That was my last day.

I think that having had [Steven Spielberg's] confidence in me probably made me a little more immune to feeling as bad about myself in the face of rejection. I also was just so young - I was unaware enough to not take it too seriously.

The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do.