The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do: the character that you get to play, the people that you work with, the day-to-day experience.

Warren [Beatty] loves to talk about his experiences with [Elia] Kazan.

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.

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

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.

The actors at that time had to learn all that stuff, it wasn't just hyperbole. What was appealing to me about being an actor at that time is that there was a home base, with job security. You were employed on a regular basis, and you had to sometimes do things you didn't want to do, but it was there. I also liked Hobie Doyle positivity.

[Warren Beatty] is voraciously detail-oriented.