Wes Anderson Quotes
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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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Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.
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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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Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.
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Mostly with commercial work, it isn't about personal vision. It's not a personal effort, it's work for hire. That's more my attitude with those. You just want to be a professional worker.
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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.
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One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.
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I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.
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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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People often call and say: "Can you help me to get Bill Murray in our movie." But I'm always like, "well I don't know how to do that!" I've sometimes tried and not been able to get him but then I'll suddenly be very surprised by the thing that he will suddenly decide to do.
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Any time someone doesn't like one on the first run, I hope they will give it another shot. At least we'll get another chance. But I do feel, in my approach, I am not really a minimalist. I don't like to leave out ideas that I think could add something to the story. Sometimes, you can't quite pick up on all of it in one sitting. It's not by design. But maybe it's a side effect of my approach.
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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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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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If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.