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.

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 try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

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

I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.