Let's say [Warren Beatty] wants you to speak louder in a scene. He won't stop playing the role and say to you as a director, "Will you speak louder on the next take?" He'll say it as Howard Hughes: "I can't totally hear you. Why don't you speak up a little bit?" To kind of keep this rhythm going.

For me, it was watching 'Reds' and 'Splendor in the Grass.' To me, 'Splendor' is like the companion piece to 'Rules Don't Apply.' It's set in the time when Warren [Beatty] came to Hollywood, and when he did that first film.

[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.

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

I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].

[Warren Beatty] is voraciously detail-oriented.

[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.'