Wes Anderson quotes

Wes Anderson is an American writer and film director, renowned for his distinctive visual style and quirky storytelling. His works are characterized by meticulous production design, offbeat humor, and memorable ensemble casts. He continues to be a major influence in contemporary independent cinema. Here are 25 of his quotes:

What happened to your hand?
It got hit by a mirror.
How'd that happen?
I lost my temper at myself. (Wes Anderson)

I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.

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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, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting.

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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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On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

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I don't think any of us are normal people.

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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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I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.

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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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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.

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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. (Wes Anderson)

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

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I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

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I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

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

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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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The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

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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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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.

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Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy. (Wes Anderson)

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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I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

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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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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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Photo: Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0

Occupation: American Writer
Born: May 1, 1969
Quotes count: 25

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