I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the way her parents met. Her father was, I think, in New York just walking by on his way home and looked into a store and saw the lady that became his wife. It was just pure luck. And she said that it once again reminds her of the role that luck and chance play in our life. I really believe that, too.

I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.

It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.

I became sort of an aficionado on the Valentino pajamas, because I like those so much.

I think for Wes [Anderson] and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance.

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.

Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.