Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson
Wesley Wales "Wes" Andersonis an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, and actor. His films are known for their distinctive visual and narrative style...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 May 1969
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
prototype expensive
A prototype is always more expensive than anything.
thinking space location
I would like to do a movie in space, but I think it would be difficult to do it on location.
adventure challenges trying
I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.
powerful writing childhood
And I wanted to do a movie [Moonrise Kingdom] about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it's like to just be blindsided, when you're in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings. Along the way, I sort of mixed in some interest in "young adult fantasy" writing.
ideas together ingredients
When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce.
levels different reviews
I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.
details obsessed bothered
I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.
kids make-you-happy
Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.
order way foxes
On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.
heartbroken feelings inspired
I just now put [Robert Altman] down feeling heartbroken but happily and deeply inspired. . . . Wonderful.
editing sometimes
Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.
interesting mind stories
Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.
thinking firsts
I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.
tired night watches
When you finish work, practically everybody in that place is going to watch a movie at night anyway. They're tired. They have dinner. They go up to their room. They're watching TV.