[ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that.

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.

[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.

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

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

I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.