That's something that Francis [Ford Coppola] would always say. I remember when I was doing Tetro, he said, "Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent."

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

[ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that.

That's something that Francis [Ford Coppola] would always say. I remember when I was doing Tetro, he said, "Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent."

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.

Each time demands its own kind of film.

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