Quotes by Wes Anderson

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Wesley Wales is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, and actor. His films are known for their distinctive visual and narrative style.
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My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

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I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.

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I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way...

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I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole.

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Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's...

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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.

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I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny.

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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 ...

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Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

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I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

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One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

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And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving.

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I'd never heard anything about this at all.

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The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

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There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

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Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

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Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.

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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.

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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.

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When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everythi...

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Author Bio

  • NameWes Anderson
  • DescriptionAmerican filmmaker
  • BornMay 1, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Writer; Actor
  • WorksThe Darjeeling Limited; The Royal Tenenbaums; Moonrise Kingdom; Fantastic Mr. Fox; Rushmore; Hotel Chevalier; Bottle Rocket; The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou; The Squid And The Whale; The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • AwardsAnnie Award; Golden Globe Award