Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

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

There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into.

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.

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

The actors at that time had to learn all that stuff, it wasn't just hyperbole. What was appealing to me about being an actor at that time is that there was a home base, with job security. You were employed on a regular basis, and you had to sometimes do things you didn't want to do, but it was there. I also liked Hobie Doyle positivity.

[Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.