I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.

I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.

[Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.

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

Warren [Beatty] was very adamant and very encouraging of me to direct. It's definitely something that I'd like to pursue more in the future.

I think that having had [Steven Spielberg's] confidence in me probably made me a little more immune to feeling as bad about myself in the face of rejection. I also was just so young - I was unaware enough to not take it too seriously.

[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.