We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums.

Being in a bathtub with Jackie Chan, I don't know, it has a way of bonding you I'll tell you that. I don't know if there are some weird undertones. It was like we had met in Los Angeles and we didn't have that much to say to each other but, after that bathtub scene, we were great friends.

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.

After Bottle Rocket, I started getting acting work. People started offering me roles in movies. It wasn't something that I thought about as a kid growing up in Texas. Actually, maybe I would have thought of it as a possibility, but it seemed so crazily far-fetched to think that you could work in movies that I really didn't ever quite imagine it. It was just lucky.

What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another.