Tea With The Mad Hatters

"Well... we actually had a class together in school. A small class, like nine students and everyone sat around this table except I sat in one corner of the room and Owen sat in another corner of the room. So, there were two people in the class who did not bother...did not want to sit at the table and I remember thinking, "Well, who does he think he is not sitting at the table?", even though I was doing the same thing. "Is he copying me?", and we never spoke the whole time.

But when we went back for the next semester, the first day he walked up to me in the corridor and asked me which creative writing class we should take and I said,
"Oh you're...you're from the-," and he said,
"Yeah."
He acted like we were already friends-because we had silently sat there in the room together for a semester. And then we were."

Wes Anderson on how he met Owen Wilson in 88' when they were both students at the University of Texas.