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

I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.

I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the way her parents met. Her father was, I think, in New York just walking by on his way home and looked into a store and saw the lady that became his wife. It was just pure luck. And she said that it once again reminds her of the role that luck and chance play in our life. I really believe that, too.

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

I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.

I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.