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 did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.

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.

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.

It feels like you're being invited into a kind of community [working with the Coen brothers].

When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect. And the character I got to play was so fun.

That is sort of the eternal question for people who go to Hollywood...what will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and forces you to think about doing something else? When do you throw in the towel?