jason schwartzman is to west as peschi is to scorsese. if we see a wes anderson movie and you're not in it, that's a surprise. >> well, i mean -- >> although you're in it less time than that question took for me to ask. >> yeah. [ chuckling ] i was waiting for a see all of the above, i realize -- i was trying to pick. but, i, well, i met wes when he cast me in the film rushmore. >> you were 17. >> i was 17 years old. and we became great friends. >> yeah. >> and he really is like a mentor to me. and he's like truly like my -- one of my closest friends in the entire world and we've worked together and collaborated, but i don't feel like it's a -- i think that wes takes such care in the movies and writing them and thinking of them that he wouldn't -- i mean i think he puts -- puts me and casts in a film if he feels like it will help the movie. i don't think -- you know, he really does it for the right reasons and there was a little period where i wasn't working, i wasn't in his movies because i don't think that there was a part that was-- >>

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it's star, jason schwartzman, and the film's writer and director, alex ross perry.

it's star, jason schwartzman, and the film's writer and director, alex ross perry.t just be coincidence. >> how's that feel in real life then, when you have those? >> it does -- it felt weird.

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