I actually remember getting asked when we were at the Cannes Film Festival, what I expected to do next. I remember feeling like there was no way I could've imagined that something like Tetro would have happened to me.

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.

Warren [Beatty] did a very cool thing, where he directs in character.

[The Coen brothers] hire the same people over and over again, so there's a shorthand between all of the people they're working with.

You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.

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.