I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.

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

I'm trying to make myself sound better.

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.

I didn't read the script [ Rules Don't Apply ] for a couple years. It basically amounted to this kind of apprenticeship with Warren [Beatty]: conversations and learning about his whole background in the film industry and his life.

That's something that Francis [Ford Coppola] would always say. I remember when I was doing Tetro, he said, "Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent."

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