I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola].

Same with the Coen brothers and Warren [Beatty]. And then slowly you get to know each one of them as a person, and that becomes a kind of separate entity, where you just know the human being.

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 did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.

Warren [Beatty] did a very cool thing, where he directs in character.

Like I've known Francis [For Coppola] for so long I think, "Oh, Francis." And then you see his name on something with The Godfather, and you go, "Oh, yeah. He's also that." The person you knew of before you met the actual person.

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.