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

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

That is sort of the eternal question for people who go to Hollywood...what will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and forces you to think about doing something else? When do you throw in the towel?

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

With 'Hail, Caesar!' it was about all the skill sets I had to learn, but each movie requires a different way of working. You're a piece in a new world, and there is always a difficult part within that world. For me, it's not consistent from movie-to-movie, each film has a central challenge.

It feels like you're being invited into a kind of community [working with the Coen brothers].

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