Wes Anderson Quotes

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.

Wes Anderson

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• Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Different
  • Why
  • Film

• The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Present
  • Film

• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Long
  • Way
  • Film

• I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Growing
  • Like
  • Glamour

• I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Film
  • Limitations
  • My Own

• Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Father
  • Film
  • Youth

• I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Enjoy
  • Role

• I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • History
  • Think
  • Film

• A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Film
  • Budget

• Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Film
  • Just

• I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Film
  • Listen

• I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Die
  • Film
  • Animation

• You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • You
  • Film
  • Perspective

• I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me.

  

  SZA
  • Film
  • Inspiration
  • Visual

• My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Art
  • Wife
  • Film

• I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Free
  • Past
  • Serious

• The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Free

• And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Power
  • Courage

• When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • People
  • Pain
  • Moments

• For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Artist
  • Film
  • Journey

• It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

  

  M.C. Brockert
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Writer
  • Amount
  • Scavenger

• 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.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Film
  • Feels
  • Excitement