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
thinking style want
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.
kids understanding want
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.
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.
fun kids exciting
Working with kids is usually very fun. They get so into movie and they're up for anything. Usually they're having such an exciting experience, everybody feels that.
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.