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

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

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

I didn't read the script [ Rules Don't Apply ] for a couple years. It basically amounted to this kind of apprenticeship with Warren [Beatty]: conversations and learning about his whole background in the film industry and his life.

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.

The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do.