I auditioned for four or five years and didn't get anything after that.

Woody Allen is kind of the one example I don't have. Because the way he works and the amount of shooting time that I did on that film, I didn't really get to know him, so he kind of stays as "Woody Allen" to me.

I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.

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

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.

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

I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola].