You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.

It's always been very important for me to be surrounded by people. It's never been enough for me to be successful alone. I want to be around people my own age who are also doing things I can learn from. And something Francis Ford Coppola said when we were doing the movie was, "If you learn something about people when you do dinner with them every week, you'll learn a lot more if you play softball with them every week." This is us learning what the climate is creatively among us.

I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

[Woody Allen] does very few takes, and he doesn't give a whole ton of directions, although he does give direction.

Same with the Coen brothers and Warren [Beatty]. And then slowly you get to know each one of them as a person, and that becomes a kind of separate entity, where you just know the human being.

You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.