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
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.
people trying sometimes
Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.
song ideas giving
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.
moving people looks
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.
trying inanimate-objects alive
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.
puppets fur reason
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.
prototype expensive
A prototype is always more expensive than anything.
race sun action
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.
details obsessed bothered
I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.
thinking space location
I would like to do a movie in space, but I think it would be difficult to do it on location.
actors my-time
I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.
mirrors hands lost
What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.
character interesting effort
I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience. I feel I get criticized for style over substance, and for details that get in the way of the characters. But every decision I make is how to bring those characters forward.
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.