It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you. Owen Wilson More Quotes by Owen Wilson More Quotes From Owen Wilson 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. Owen Wilson rome church thinking The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems a little bit more exotic than an American. Owen Wilson exotic lovely littles 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. Owen Wilson american-movie accents actors 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. Owen Wilson senior school thinking I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West. Owen Wilson connections beautiful thinking Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an actor, and you try to contribute to the story. But I think it might sound a little pretentious for me to say I think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as a creative person. Owen Wilson creative artist thinking It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it. Owen Wilson tired work-out dying I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me. Owen Wilson trying way interesting I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time. Owen Wilson difficult-times media care Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies. Owen Wilson fog movie growing-up We didn't know what the reception was going to be when we walked out on the runway, but it felt like we were in a rock band. People started cheering. It was a nice way to begin Zoolander 2, with that kind of reception. Owen Wilson rocks nice cheer My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket. Owen Wilson texas brother college 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". Owen Wilson rome bored people Anna Wintour has a reputation - she can be very intimidating - but that day [Valentino show] she was just smiling and laughing. That was my first time meeting her, and she seemed like she was having a great time. Everybody was enjoying themselves. Owen Wilson reputation laughing firsts Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper. Owen Wilson term-paper writing fun I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds like, okay, you're going to be in a lot of crazy situations that are unbelievable. Owen Wilson crazy sound thinking There's what is on screen and then for us, it's if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at work. Owen Wilson showing-up enjoy people I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic. Owen Wilson six-months rome five 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. Owen Wilson suggestions sound giving If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I'm a huge worrier. Owen Wilson fear-of-failure might way
