Early on in "Bottle Rocket", there's an exchange that crystallizes, for me, Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson's filmmaking ethos.  The scene is set at night.  Three men are sitting in their car outside a bookstore, pre-robbery.  Dignan (Owen) and Anthony (Luke Wilson) put white tape across the bridges of their noses.  Bob (Robert Musgrave), the get-away driver, innocently asks, "Why is there tape on your nose?"  Dignan, with a devilish grin stretching from ear to ear, excitedly replies, "Exactly!"  It's typical for Anderson/Wilson characters to not fully understand the reason for their actions (or if they do, never tell the audience), while knowing that, like sharks, if they stop moving they will die.