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.

The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.

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.

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

Whenever you hear somebody else is auditioning for something, you sort of assume they're going to get it. You should try to just ignore it. I don't find it very helpful to know who else is going up for stuff, generally.

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.