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

I'm just excited to be a part of the movie [Star Wars]. It's always the particulars that are the most exciting.

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

But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.

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 think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.

I feel like I would have ultimately ended up pursuing acting. It probably would have been much more difficult and taken a lot longer for me to get into it professionally.