Alden Ehrenreich
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.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Brother
That was cool, because they've all [ George Clooney and Josh Brolin and Scarlett Johansson] worked with the Coens. They were much more at ease with them at the outset, and they were all kind of familiar with the shorthand that the Coens had.Collection: Ease
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.Collection: School
Warren [Beatty] was very adamant and very encouraging of me to direct. It's definitely something that I'd like to pursue more in the future.Collection: Adamant
For me, it was watching 'Reds' and 'Splendor in the Grass.' To me, 'Splendor' is like the companion piece to 'Rules Don't Apply.' It's set in the time when Warren [Beatty] came to Hollywood, and when he did that first film.Collection: Hollywood
[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.'Collection: Splendor
I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.Collection: Honesty
With 'Hail, Caesar!' it was about all the skill sets I had to learn, but each movie requires a different way of working. You're a piece in a new world, and there is always a difficult part within that world. For me, it's not consistent from movie-to-movie, each film has a central challenge.Collection: Skills
My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.Collection: House
Each time demands its own kind of film.Collection: Demand
What's exciting to me now is the idea in participating in a landscape of moviemaking that's completely different - the way you can make a movie with a 5D or something and what's going to come out of that. Especially the generation under us who grew up with the internet. When they are making films in the next ten years, they're gonna be so different from what we've seen before because their whole worldview is so different.Collection: Years
I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.Collection: People
You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.Collection: Careers
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.Collection: Thinking
The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do.Collection: Challenges
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it’s a calling.Collection: Romance