It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.

I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.

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.

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 care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

And James L. Brooks then sort of became our mentor, brought us out to Los Angeles and worked on the script for a year with us. We learned so much working with him - just being able to spend time with him, the quality of his mind, the things he comes up with and says. I think Wes [Anderson] and I could go to dinner tonight and spend the whole dinner thinking and talking about things that Jim has said to us over the years.

You know you're in love when you wear condoms while having sex with other women.