[Warren's Beatty] first film being with this very important director [Elia Kazan], I think we related on that in a big way. And I just was genuinely curious about his experiences in film, and about the people he knew.

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

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

When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over the next five years continued to meet with him and go to his house.

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.

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