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Wes Anderson Biography

Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, and actor. His films are known for their distinctive visual and narrative styles.

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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.

Character, Conventional, Films, Perform, Song, Watches

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.

Different, Levels, Movie, Plenty, Reviews

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.

Become, Jobs, Move, Moving, Personalities, Personality

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.

Aside, Children, People, Perfect, Wait, Whole

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.

Clear, Happen, Kids, Understanding, Want

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.

Arranged, Choices, Coordinated, Costumes, People, Thinking

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

Actors, Become, Pain, Process, Slow

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

Actors, Love, My Time, Time, Working

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

Hands, Happened, Lost, Mirrors, Temper

I just now put [Robert Altman] down feeling heartbroken but happily and deeply inspired. . . . Wonderful.

Feeling, Feelings, Heartbroken, Inspired

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.

Adventure, Challenges, Like, Look, Tell, Trying

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

Actor, Actors, Enjoyed, Things, Working

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.

Character, Decision, Details, Effort, Interesting, Personal

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.

Doe, Kind, Littles, Movie, Trickier, Used

It's not usually that great of an idea to read lots of reviews of your movies, because even if somebody's saying nice things, there'll still be something in there that pushes the wrong button, and it's not really that helpful.

Helpful, Lots, Nice, Pushes, Saying, Things

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.

Essential, Giving, Ideas, Movie, Song, Tell

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.

Details, Kind, Movie, Reality, World

I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.

Everything, Firsts, Think, Thinking

I've always loved stop motion animation and I particularly wanted to do stop motion with puppets that have fur, for whatever reason that is.

Animation, Fur, Motion, Puppets, Reason, Stop

When something is discovered by people in movie theaters, it's discovered by people who are all together, and there's a sort of feeling of an event about it. And when it's on video, it's like something is being discovered in the library or something. It's like having a second life in public libraries. It's just like individuals, and it's less of a. . . We can't participate in it the same way.

Feelings, Library, People, Sort, Video, Way

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