It was like traveling back in time, it was like a Wes Anderson movie. But then you see mobile phones, and plasma TVs, and you realize it is the present day. Wes Anderson More Quotes by Wes Anderson More Quotes From Wes Anderson 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. Wes Anderson streetspariswalking 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, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting. Wes Anderson designwritingthinking I don't think any of us are normal people. Wes Anderson normalpeoplethinking 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. Wes Anderson lonelymemorablethinking 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 challengestryingadventure 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. Wes Anderson differentkindideas 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 realcharacterpeople 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. Wes Anderson effortcharacterinteresting 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. Wes Anderson storiesmindinteresting You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song. Wes Anderson songcharacterwatches I don't really wanna think about themes. I wanna just think about the experience of the movie. I feel like, as soon as I reduce it to a theme, once I write that sentence, it won't be that great. I feel like there's more potential for it to mean something interesting if I'm not forcing it to mean something I've already decided. Wes Anderson writingmeanthinking I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience. Wes Anderson filmwantinteresting I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail. Wes Anderson bothereddetailsobsessed I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors. Wes Anderson my-timeactors 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 songgivingideas What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself. Wes Anderson mirrorslosthands 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 viewsworryideas 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 libraryfeelingspeople That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of. Wes Anderson detailsrealityworld If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me. Wes Anderson wanttryingideas
