I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make sure that it was a surprise when we walked out on the [Valentino] runway. I remember showing up at Place Vendôme and doing the fitting and seeing the pajamas that I was going to wear - which I like very much - and seeing Ben arrive kind of in disguise.

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

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.

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

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

I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again".

In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.