Alden Ehrenreich
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."Collection: Years
I think that having had [Steven Spielberg's] confidence in me probably made me a little more immune to feeling as bad about myself in the face of rejection. I also was just so young - I was unaware enough to not take it too seriously.Collection: Thinking
I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola].Collection: Jobs
I auditioned for four or five years and didn't get anything after that.Collection: Years
I'm kind of grateful that I didn't have any real success until I was older and basically out of high school. I think that was a real confidence boost for me, having it all start that way, in that very privileged position of having him vouch for me.Collection: Real
When I was 14 years old, I was by no means trying to work professionally at all.Collection: Mean
I feel like I would have ultimately ended up pursuing acting. It probably would have been much more difficult and taken a lot longer for me to get into it professionally.Collection: Taken
I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.Collection: Couple
[ Being director] is really reassuring to me that it's just about who is right for that role and less about if you ace the audition. It's just about getting to know people, not about who's a better actor a lot of the time. It's about who fits that particular suit, you know?Collection: Suits You
I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.Collection: Roles
That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.Collection: Retail
I'm trying to make myself sound better.Collection: Trying
There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into.Collection: Party
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.Collection: Thinking
I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.Collection: Firsts
An era that I specifically like is sort of late 50's, early 60's. I guess mid 50's too. I like these types of films that deal with post WWII America and this more complex leading man that kind of emerges from that.Collection: Men
Howard Hughes innovation was in the aviation field. His designs and spirit of experimentation was at the forefront. As far as his work as film producer, he certainly went after a bigger and more ambitious kind of filmmaking, even if he wasn't necessarily a cinema artist.Collection: Artist
[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself in the world.Collection: Opportunity
That is sort of the eternal question for people who go to Hollywood...what will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and forces you to think about doing something else? When do you throw in the towel?Collection: Thinking
The actors at that time had to learn all that stuff, it wasn't just hyperbole. What was appealing to me about being an actor at that time is that there was a home base, with job security. You were employed on a regular basis, and you had to sometimes do things you didn't want to do, but it was there. I also liked Hobie Doyle positivity.Collection: Jobs
For me, each one of those experiences stands on its own. The first one was with Steven Spielberg, who helped me to get an agent and vouch for me, and that gave me the confidence to continue.Collection: Agents
I had four years of auditions, and nothing happened, until Francis Ford Coppola took a shot on me ['Tetro' in 2009]. I hadn't done a film, and suddenly I was the lead.Collection: Years
Even when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.Collection: Years
It's always been very important for me to be surrounded by people. It's never been enough for me to be successful alone. I want to be around people my own age who are also doing things I can learn from. And something Francis Ford Coppola said when we were doing the movie was, "If you learn something about people when you do dinner with them every week, you'll learn a lot more if you play softball with them every week." This is us learning what the climate is creatively among us.Collection: Softball
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.Collection: Blue
I remember calling and asking, because I had a few lines that were like, "How could the character have done this?" and I hadn't read the part of the script that said what she [ Cate Blanchett] did, so they put me on the phone with Woody... Allen. I don't know if I could really say "Woody."Collection: Character
I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.Collection: Opposites
Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.Collection: My Family
By anyone's measure, [Warren Beatty] is proven himself. But he still sets out to make something as great as it possibly can be.Collection: Stills
[Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.Collection: Details
[Warren Beatty] is voraciously detail-oriented.Collection: Details
Let's say [Warren Beatty] wants you to speak louder in a scene. He won't stop playing the role and say to you as a director, "Will you speak louder on the next take?" He'll say it as Howard Hughes: "I can't totally hear you. Why don't you speak up a little bit?" To kind of keep this rhythm going.Collection: Littles
I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].Collection: Directors
[Warren's Beatty] first film being with this very important director [Elia Kazan], I think we related on that in a big way. And I just was genuinely curious about his experiences in film, and about the people he knew.Collection: Thinking
Warren [Beatty] loves to talk about his experiences with [Elia] Kazan.Collection: Beatty
Elia Kazan - the films he made were such a big deal for me when I was growing up.Collection: Growing Up
I grew up watching a lot of old movies, so getting to ask about making movies in the '70s and people he was friends with, like Orson Welles, Lillian Hellman and Charlie Chaplin, and hearing a first-person account was pretty incredible.Collection: People
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.Collection: Couple
When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over the next five years continued to meet with him and go to his house.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Zero
I've definitely been spoilt. Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.Collection: Play
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!].Collection: Welcome
It feels like you're being invited into a kind of community [working with the Coen brothers].Collection: Brother
[The Coen brothers] hire the same people over and over again, so there's a shorthand between all of the people they're working with.Collection: Brother
[ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that.Collection: Film
Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.Collection: Real
The movie [Blue Jasmin] shot very quick. I met Cate Blanchett in the car on the way to set, and we did that last scene, and she was just so phenomenal. I had basically met her that day. Because the way he shoots, everybody just shows up and does their thing, and he moves us very quickly.Collection: Moving
[Woody Allen] does very few takes, and he doesn't give a whole ton of directions, although he does give direction.Collection: Giving
One of the big takeaways from that experience [in Blue Jasmin] was just what a thrill it was to act with somebody like Cate Blanchett operating on that caliber. Because what she was doing was very powerful. TCollection: Powerful