Even when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

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.

I'm just excited to be a part of the movie [Star Wars]. It's always the particulars that are the most exciting.

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

[The Yellow Birds] is based on a novel written by Kevin Powers, who is an Iraq War vet. I play a soldier who promises my friend's mother I'm going to keep him alive. But when we go overseas to Iraq, he gets killed. It's about what happened to him, my reckoning and dealing with that as I return home from the war.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.