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

Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.

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

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.

It was pretty fun [auditioning on the Millennium Falcon], because I enjoyed the material a lot. Last year I read for the directors, then came to England and did a test on the Falcon, then came back and did a couple more screen tests in Los Angeles.

I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.

Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.