It’s funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film Death Sentence [2007], and I got back with him again in Inside Llewyn Davis.

It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.