Alden Ehrenreich Quotes

Warren [Beatty] loves to talk about his experiences with [Elia] Kazan.

Elia Kazan - the films he made were such a big deal for me when I was growing up.

Warren [Beatty] did a very cool thing, where he directs in character.

I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.

Each time demands its own kind of film.

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

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.

It's a little bit about how I felt about Hail, Caesar! and now Star Wars. I could not have predicted those things happening to me. But I'm just happy they come along.

When I worked with anybody like Woody Allen, there's the name, and your understanding of who they are before you meet them, that stays in your head a little bit.

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.

Same with the Coen brothers and Warren [Beatty]. And then slowly you get to know each one of them as a person, and that becomes a kind of separate entity, where you just know the human being.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

It feels like you're being invited into a kind of community [working with the Coen brothers].

My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.

My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.