When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect. And the character I got to play was so fun.

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

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.

But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.

I met Scarlett [Johansson] briefly, but Josh [Brolin] and George [Clooney], in particular, were so welcoming and so inclusive and really brought me into the fold from the beginning. They were just very considerate of me, and it meant a lot [shootong Hail, Caesar!].

I talked to Woody Allen for half an hour or something. It was pretty incredible. He really went into lots of detail about the story [in Blue Jasmin] and what actually happened. Just talking to him is very surreal.

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.