Wes Anderson, 1998

With his goofy Texas slacker persona, actor Owen Wilson is the last person you'd expect to suffer from nerves. But the man who co-wrote Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums has a phobia about premieres, he tells Miranda Sawyer.

Wes Anderson's movies, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, are very clever, but also approachable. A bit like the man himself, Suzie Mackenzie discovers - funny on the surface, but with something subterranean going on. This is especially true of his new film, The Life Aquatic, his most joyous and enjoyable so far, loosely based on the life of marine explorer Jacques Cousteau.