[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.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to 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.

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.

I'm kind of grateful that I didn't have any real success until I was older and basically out of high school. I think that was a real confidence boost for me, having it all start that way, in that very privileged position of having him vouch for me.