When I first got there, during rehearsals I was changing some of the lines a bit, and Wes Anderson pulled me aside and said, ‘Jason, uh, it took me four years to write this script, so could you please just try to do the words I wrote?’ After that I always just did the words.
Jason Schwartzman, on acting in Rushmore, his first film role.
I read that quote when it was first published in 1999, and I was reminded of it when I noticed that Jason Schwartzman co-wrote Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited. The irony is delightfully charming.