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

I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.

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] did a very cool thing, where he directs in character.

[ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that.

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.

When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect. And the character I got to play was so fun.