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.

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

[ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that.

I talked to Woody Allen for half an hour or something. It was pretty incredible. He really went into lots of detail about the story [in Blue Jasmin] and what actually happened. Just talking to him is very surreal.

I'm trying to make myself sound better.

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

I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.