“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.”
![“[Woody Allen] does very few takes, and he doesn't give a whole ton of directions, although he does give direction.” quote by Alden Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af3/alden-ehrenreich-2752_doe_woody-allen-does-very-few-takes-and-he-d_30311.jpg)
![“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."” quote by Alden Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/32d/alden-ehrenreich-2752_asking_i-remember-calling-and-asking-because-i_34926.jpg)
![“Even when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.” quote by Alden Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f54/alden-ehrenreich-2752_beatty_even-when-warren-beatty-cast-me-it-had-b_215200.jpg)
![“I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].” quote by Alden Ehrenreich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7ca/alden-ehrenreich-2752_bird_i-had-the-opportunity-to-learn-more-abou_259788.jpg)
