Latest Wes Anderson Quotes from Interviews

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• When something is discovered by people in movie theaters, it's discovered by people who are all together, and there's a sort of feeling of an event about it. And when it's on video, it's like something is being discovered in the library or something. It's like having a second life in public libraries. It's just like individuals, and it's less of a... We can't participate in it the same way.

  Wes Anderson

  People, Feelings, Library

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's not usually that great of an idea to read lots of reviews of your movies, because even if somebody's saying nice things, there'll still be something in there that pushes the wrong button, and it's not really that helpful.

  Wes Anderson

  Nice, Helpful

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Any time someone doesn't like one on the first run, I hope they will give it another shot. At least we'll get another chance. But I do feel, in my approach, I am not really a minimalist. I don't like to leave out ideas that I think could add something to the story. Sometimes, you can't quite pick up on all of it in one sitting. It's not by design. But maybe it's a side effect of my approach.

  Wes Anderson

  Running, Thinking, Giving

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Mostly with commercial work, it isn't about personal vision. It's not a personal effort, it's work for hire. That's more my attitude with those. You just want to be a professional worker.

  Wes Anderson

  Attitude, Effort, Vision

  Source: film.avclub.com

• India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected.

  Wes Anderson

  Moving, Unexpected, Pleasure

  Source: film.avclub.com

• People seem to think that my movies are so carefully coordinated and arranged - and in a lot of ways, they are - but every single time I make a movie, I feel that every director makes these choices. You make choices about your script, you make choices about your actors, and how you're going to stage it, and how you're going to shoot it, and what the costumes are going to be like, and in every single detail, you make that decision. And for me, what ends up happening is, I wind up surprised at the combination of all these ingredients. It never is anything like what I expected.

  Wes Anderson

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I would like to do a movie in space, but I think it would be difficult to do it on location.

  Wes Anderson

  Thinking, Space, Would Be

  "Wes Anderson Addresses Sci-Fi Movie Rumors and His Next Project". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. November 4, 2009.

• I've always loved stop motion animation and I particularly wanted to do stop motion with puppets that have fur, for whatever reason that is.

  Wes Anderson

  Fur, Puppets, Reason

  "Wes Anderson Interview FANTASTIC MR. FOX". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. November 27, 2009.

• A prototype is always more expensive than anything.

  Wes Anderson

  Prototype, Expensive

  "Wes Anderson Interview FANTASTIC MR. FOX". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. November 27, 2009.

• A lot of people have said my movies are all the same. But I don't actually make an effort to have a style. I'm usually just thinking of what can we do to make it funnier or more interesting or just kind of refine it and it ends up like that.

  Wes Anderson

  Thinking, People, Interesting

• When you're doing a live-action movie, you have your day set up and you're going to do this shot and this shot, and eventually the sun is going to go down. It's a sequential race to whatever is going to end the day.

  Wes Anderson

  Race, Sun, Action

• 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.

  Wes Anderson

  Adventure, Challenges, Trying

  "Wes Anderson on Darjeeling Limited: The RT Interview". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 22, 2007.

• The animators bring their own spontaneity to it as well, because when they do a take of a shot it really is like just one continuous activity for them. They launch into it and do it, and they're not even quite sure how it's going to turn out when they're doing it. They're sort-of sculpting their way through a scene and trying to make this inanimate object alive.

  Wes Anderson

  Trying, Way, Inanimate Objects

  "Wes Anderson on Darjeeling Limited: The RT Interview". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 22, 2007.

• The thing with animation is that you record the actors like a radio show and then the animators become actors in their own way because it's their job to take this puppets and make them seem alive. They bring their own personalities to the way they move these puppets.

  Wes Anderson

  Jobs, Moving, Personality

  "Wes Anderson on Darjeeling Limited: The RT Interview". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 22, 2007.

• The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

  Wes Anderson

  Real, Character, People

  "Wes Anderson on Darjeeling Limited: The RT Interview". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 22, 2007.

• India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected. That's part of the reason why people who like it tend to love it.

  Wes Anderson

  Moving, People, Looks

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2007.

• The only thing that takes away from it is when they steal some music from one of my movies and put it in a TV commercial. I am not crazy about influencing TV commercials. But if I legitimately influence someone making a movie, I think that is really flattering.

  Wes Anderson

  Crazy, Thinking, Tvs

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. October 10, 2007.

• People often call and say: "Can you help me to get Bill Murray in our movie." But I'm always like, "well I don't know how to do that!" I've sometimes tried and not been able to get him but then I'll suddenly be very surprised by the thing that he will suddenly decide to do.

  Wes Anderson

  People, Bills, Able

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel like it's for the audience. It's about seeing how much texture we can give it and seeing how many things are there for people to latch on to... I just want to do it the way I want and I feel like it won't be helpful for me if I start worrying about that. I just have to follow my instincts. Everyone is going to respond differently to it and everybody's right - that's their point of view. That's how the story intersects with their lives.

  Wes Anderson

  Ideas, Views, Worry

  "The Darjeeling Limited - Wes Anderson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.

  Wes Anderson

  Thinking, Style, Want

  "Wes Anderson Talks MOONRISE KINGDOM, His Next Film, Doing Another Stop-Motion Movie and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 5, 2012.

• The kids are the ones that have a clarity about what they want. They don't have any wisdom, but they do have a clear understanding about what they want to have happen.

  Wes Anderson

  Kids, Understanding, Want

  "Wes Anderson on 'Moonrise Kingdom' and its unfamiliar reality". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. May 24, 2012.

• 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.

  Wes Anderson

  Powerful, Writing, Childhood

  "Book Excerpt: Deconstructing Filmmaker Wes Anderson". Interview with Steve Chagollan, variety.com. October 30, 2013.

• Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

  Wes Anderson

  Song, Ideas, Giving

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 10, 1999.

• 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.

  Wes Anderson

  Tired, Night, Watching Tv

  "Wes Anderson and Adam Stockhausen Talk THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Collaborating on the Film, Creating a Lush Cinematic World, and Varying Aspect Ratios". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. March 26, 2014.

• the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this..."

  Wes Anderson

  Play, Years, Guy

  "Interview: Wes Anderson - 'Grand Budapest Hotel' Writer & Director". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. March 6, 2014.