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'm kind of grateful that I didn't have any real success until I was older and basically out of high school. I think that was a real confidence boost for me, having it all start that way, in that very privileged position of having him vouch for me.

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

Woody Allen is kind of the one example I don't have. Because the way he works and the amount of shooting time that I did on that film, I didn't really get to know him, so he kind of stays as "Woody Allen" to me.

Warren [Beatty] loves to talk about his experiences with [Elia] Kazan.

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'm trying to make myself sound better.