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.

When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over the next five years continued to meet with him and go to his house.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.

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

An era that I specifically like is sort of late 50's, early 60's. I guess mid 50's too. I like these types of films that deal with post WWII America and this more complex leading man that kind of emerges from that.

There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into.