Wes Anderson Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.
• Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.
• 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…
• I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.
• 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...
• The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.
• One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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