Wes Anderson Quotes

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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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  Writing, Thinking, Design

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Thinking, People, Normal

  "Wes Anderson: 'I don't think any of us are normal people'". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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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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  Lonely, Memorable, Thinking

  "Wes Anderson: 'I don't think any of us are normal people'". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• 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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  Adventure, Challenges, Trying

  "Wes Anderson on Darjeeling Limited: The RT Interview". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 22, 2007.

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• 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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  Real, Character, People

  "Wes Anderson on Darjeeling Limited: The RT Interview". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 22, 2007.

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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.

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  Paris, Streets, Walking

  "The World According to Wes". "Conversations with Slate" with Jacob Weisberg, www.slate.com. May 25, 2012.

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

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  Interesting, Want, Film

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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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  Interesting, Mind, Stories

  "Wes Anderson Talks MOONRISE KINGDOM, His Next Film, Doing Another Stop-Motion Movie and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 5, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Character, Interesting, Effort

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Details, Obsessed, Bothered

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Ideas, Different, Kind

  "Wes Anderson Talks MOONRISE KINGDOM, His Next Film, Doing Another Stop-Motion Movie and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 5, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  "Wes Anderson Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, the Film's Cast, His Aesthetic, Shifting Aspect Ratios, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. February 24, 2014.

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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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  Reality, Details, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With each movie I have a different set of inspirations.

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  Inspiration, Different

  Source: www.slate.com

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• 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.

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  Ideas, Views, Worry

  "The Darjeeling Limited - Wes Anderson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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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  Mirrors, Hands, Lost

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• 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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  Song, Ideas, Giving

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 10, 1999.

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• I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.

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  Philosophy, Writing, Talking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

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  Kids, Make You Happy

  "Wes Anderson, ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Director, On His Critics: ‘It’s Just White Noise’". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2012.

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• 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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  Thinking, Space, Would Be

  "Wes Anderson Addresses Sci-Fi Movie Rumors and His Next Project". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. November 4, 2009.

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• 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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  Song, Character, Watches

  Source: www.slate.com

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• People seem to think that my movies are so carefully coordinated and arranged - and in a lot of ways, they are - but every single time I make a movie, I feel that every director makes these choices. You make choices about your script, you make choices about your actors, and how you're going to stage it, and how you're going to shoot it, and what the costumes are going to be like, and in every single detail, you make that decision. And for me, what ends up happening is, I wind up surprised at the combination of all these ingredients. It never is anything like what I expected.

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  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• 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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  Thinking, People, Interesting

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• 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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  Actors, My Time

  "Wes Anderson Talks MOONRISE KINGDOM, His Next Film, Doing Another Stop-Motion Movie and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 5, 2012.

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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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  Play, Done, Excitement

  "Wes Anderson, Creating A Singular 'Kingdom'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, ripr.org. May 29, 2012.

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