“I have this weird thing where I feel exhilarated when I cast things off in my life. Let things go. Even things that are important to me. Sometimes I know I’m making the wrong decision, but I do it anyway. Like, I just lost this watch that really meant a lot to me. I bought it after ‘Bottle Rocket’. The first nice thing I ever bought for myself and I lost it. Yet I have this feeling of being glad it’s gone. I don’t know why.” -Luke
“The image - being from Texas, the slacker, surfer thing - you don’t think of that and see a worrier, an angst-ridden person, I know that. Also, I’m reasonably polite and that puts people at their ease, so they think you are too.” -Owen
“I don’t feel like I’m a hundred times happier. Can’t we petition someone to make it so that outside stuff is the key to happiness? I’m tired of people always saying, ‘It’s gotta come from you!’ Can’t it come from, like, a new pair of shoes?” -Owen
“We don’t want women to really know men, because then they’ll find out how much we need them.” -Luke
[On his relationship with Sheryl Crowe:] “Going out with someone who’s doing the same thing as you, who’s in the public eye, can be a problem… You want a break when you come home. You don’t want someone with the same issues as you maybe reminding you of stuff you don’t like in yourself. That being said, I don’t think being in the spotlight had anything to do with me and Sheryl not working out. The story of our relationship is the same story I’ve had with most of my relationships. I was lucky enough to find a great girl and, because of my lack of… focus, the relationship went south”. -Owen
“It was maybe easier for my dad to be around Luke. They had more of a connection. Luke looked like my mother and of course, Andrew was the oldest. My dad and I would butt heads.” -Owen
“Perhaps you missed my turn as a gay cop in ‘The Big Bounce’?” -Andrew Wilson, in response to an interviewer who told him, “I didn’t know that you exist.”
“To me it comes naturally, the peaks and valleys, sadness with happiness. I’ve definitely had periods, maybe, where I haven’t been happy. Whether it’s from a breakup or the good, old-fashioned blues - but I wouldn’t say clinically depressed.” -Luke
“To be honest, I’m not that good at staying friends. I like to move on after a relationship ends. If I break up with somebody, I don’t want to see her or hear from her.” -Luke
“I’m a little older and fatter now, and I’m not exercising as much. My lifestyle these days involves a lot of beer and pasta. But there’s something satisfying in letting your body go to hell. So maybe I won’t get offered the same kind of role as before. So what? I’m happy to play the guy in his mid-30s who may be a little unhealthy. “Fat and arrogant” is what I’m bringing to the script.” -Luke
“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.” -Owen
“I went back to my high school in Texas about a month ago. I ended up spending five, six hours at the school meeting different kids. It was really fun because it made me think, “Wow, people are actually seeing these movies that I make!” When you’re in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they’re so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool. But these kids were crazy. They had lots of questions, from “What was it like kissing Cameron Diaz?” to the little studious kids who said, “I really enjoyed ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’.” -Luke
“There’s that great quote from Beckett, I think, ‘He had an abiding sense of melancholy that sustained him through brief periods of joy.’ I like that, because I’m definitely an up-and-down person.” -Owen [The quote is actually “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy,” and it’s by Yeats.]
