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

I talked to Woody Allen for half an hour or something. It was pretty incredible. He really went into lots of detail about the story [in Blue Jasmin] and what actually happened. Just talking to him is very surreal.

That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.

I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.

So many times you can't get a foot in the door unless you're already in the room.

Howard Hughes innovation was in the aviation field. His designs and spirit of experimentation was at the forefront. As far as his work as film producer, he certainly went after a bigger and more ambitious kind of filmmaking, even if he wasn't necessarily a cinema artist.

You get bummed out, and then you go, "Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself." That kind of helps.