I remember Tetro was a big deal to me at that time. It was going from zero to one: Never having been in a movie, a person who had no relationship to any of that, and that was my first movie.

I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.

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

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

Their way of working [the Coen brothers] is always kept pretty mysterious. I was so curious to see how they make these movies. It was just such a joy - they seem to have so much fun making their movies.

[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.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.