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

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.

Elia Kazan - the films he made were such a big deal for me when I was growing up.

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

I talked to Woody Allen for half an hour or something. It was pretty incredible. He really went into lots of detail about the story [in Blue Jasmin] and what actually happened. Just talking to him is very surreal.

I remember calling and asking, because I had a few lines that were like, "How could the character have done this?" and I hadn't read the part of the script that said what she [ Cate Blanchett] did, so they put me on the phone with Woody... Allen. I don't know if I could really say "Woody."