Wes Anderson Quotes

#1. 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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#2. A lot of people have said my movies are all the same. But I don't actually make an effort to have a style. I'm usually just thinking of what can we do to make it funnier or more interesting or just kind of refine it and it ends up like that.

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#3. Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.

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

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#5. Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.

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#6. There's really no point in doing anything in life because it's all over in the blink of an eye. The next thing you know, rigor mortis sets in.

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

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#9. Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

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#10. The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

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#11. MR. MOUSTAFA
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once know as humanity... He was one of them. What more is there to say?

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#12. 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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#13. With each movie I have a different set of inspirations.

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#14. Do you know how writers often say the characters take over ... But that is more or less what it always feels like to me, too. Even though that's just a way of describing how your brain is working, it's still what you tend to feel.

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#15. 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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#16. The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

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

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#21. When you finish work, practically everybody in that place is going to watch a movie at night anyway. They're tired. They have dinner. They go up to their room. They're watching TV.

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#22. The thing with animation is that you record the actors like a radio show and then the animators become actors in their own way because it's their job to take this puppets and make them seem alive. They bring their own personalities to the way they move these puppets.

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#23. I'd never heard anything about this at all.

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#24. 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.

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#25. 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.

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

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. You're looking so well, darling. You really are. They've done a marvelous job. I don't know what sort of cream they've put on you down at the morgue, but I want some. Honestly, you look better than you have in years. You look like you're alive!

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#30. 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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#31. 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.

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#32. Well, you can say that about most anything, "it depends". Of course, it depends. - M. Gustave

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

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#34. A prototype is always more expensive than anything.

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#35. 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.

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

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#37. But in the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant.

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#38. Son of a bitch, I'm sick of these dolphins.

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#39. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

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#40. Who's to say? But he didn't deserve to die.

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#41. 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; everything is different.

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#42. 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.

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#43. 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.

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#44. 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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#45. 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 just not going to work.

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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. I would like to do a movie in space, but I think it would be difficult to do it on location.

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#49. The one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this ... "

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#50. She stabbed Redford in the back with lefty scissors!

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#51. 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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#52. For my dearest darling, treasured, cherished Agatha whom I worship. With respect, adoration, admiration, kisses, gratitude, best wishes, and love from Z to A.

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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. You see? There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant - (sighs deeply). Oh, fuck it.

-M. Gustave, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

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