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

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.

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

[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself in the world.

I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].

By anyone's measure, [Warren Beatty] is proven himself. But he still sets out to make something as great as it possibly can be.

I grew up watching a lot of old movies, so getting to ask about making movies in the '70s and people he was friends with, like Orson Welles, Lillian Hellman and Charlie Chaplin, and hearing a first-person account was pretty incredible.