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

If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

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 like the Valentino store in Rome.Because in Rome when I'd be riding my bike, that store is right next to the Spanish Steps, and it gets so crowded there, so I could sometimes duck into the Valentino store and go up to the top floor and have a little espresso and just relax and take it easy.

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