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

[Warren Beatty] is voraciously detail-oriented.

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

I actually remember getting asked when we were at the Cannes Film Festival, what I expected to do next. I remember feeling like there was no way I could've imagined that something like Tetro would have happened to me.

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."

Howard Hughes innovation was in the aviation field. His designs and spirit of experimentation was at the forefront. As far as his work as film producer, he certainly went after a bigger and more ambitious kind of filmmaking, even if he wasn't necessarily a cinema artist.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.