Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.

I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon [2000], and when we were working on the script, I thought that my character thought about being an outlaw the way a kid today would think about being a rock star, as a way to impress girls. So it was just kind of a funny idea, but once we had that idea, it changed the character and made it something that was funnier to me to play.

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

The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And [Woody Allen] gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.

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

Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.