When everybody feels pretty good about themselves, and you have Champagne coming out of the water fountain, it's almost like we've got to burn the place down.

He came in for an audition along with, like, 40 other people, but the moment we heard him, he was just so right-on. He pitched his voice slightly to sound like a junior high kid. Right there, that was really unique — and then he had such great energy.

Just ripped the Band-Aid off. He's kind of like that.

I said to everyone, you can send any notes you want, but notes that speak to this, what the movie's really about, those are the ones which are going to be helpful.