For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

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

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

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

[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself in the world.

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.