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.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.

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

I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.

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.

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

I had one line. My two larger scenes had gone fine, and then on that day I screwed up that line over and over and over again. And every time I screwed it up, they can't use the whole thing because they're only using the one shot [in Blue Jasmin]. That was my last day.