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

Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.

That was cool, because they've all [ George Clooney and Josh Brolin and Scarlett Johansson] worked with the Coens. They were much more at ease with them at the outset, and they were all kind of familiar with the shorthand that the Coens had.

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.

[The Coen brothers] hire the same people over and over again, so there's a shorthand between all of the people they're working with.

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.