My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.

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

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

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

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.

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.

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