[Warren Beatty] is voraciously detail-oriented.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.

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

That was cool, because they've all [ George Clooney and Josh Brolin and Scarlett Johansson] worked with the Coens. They were much more at ease with them at the outset, and they were all kind of familiar with the shorthand that the Coens had.

I feel like I would have ultimately ended up pursuing acting. It probably would have been much more difficult and taken a lot longer for me to get into it professionally.

I want to make movies that people see. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do.

You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.