[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.

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

What's exciting to me now is the idea in participating in a landscape of moviemaking that's completely different - the way you can make a movie with a 5D or something and what's going to come out of that. Especially the generation under us who grew up with the internet. When they are making films in the next ten years, they're gonna be so different from what we've seen before because their whole worldview is so different.

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

I had an audition process that went on for a long time, and I got to spend a lot of time with the guys who are directing the film. Getting to be around them and being around the world a little bit has been the main experience so far. I did my audition on the Millennium Falcon for one of my screen tests, which was pretty cool.

Warren [Beatty] was very adamant and very encouraging of me to direct. It's definitely something that I'd like to pursue more in the future.

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