You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.

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 you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.

I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].

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

With 'Hail, Caesar!' it was about all the skill sets I had to learn, but each movie requires a different way of working. You're a piece in a new world, and there is always a difficult part within that world. For me, it's not consistent from movie-to-movie, each film has a central challenge.

[Woody Allen] does very few takes, and he doesn't give a whole ton of directions, although he does give direction.