When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

When I worked with anybody like Woody Allen, there's the name, and your understanding of who they are before you meet them, that stays in your head a little bit.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

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

Same with the Coen brothers and Warren [Beatty]. And then slowly you get to know each one of them as a person, and that becomes a kind of separate entity, where you just know the human being.