Kids are always open to anything. It’s very rare that a kid isn’t extremely eager to make you happy. Wes Anderson Read Quote
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 ones, they can be a real ace in the hole. Wes Anderson Read Quote
When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce. Wes Anderson Read Quote
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. Wes Anderson Read Quote
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 go along. Wes Anderson Read Quote
I love working with actors. That’s what the set really is, for me. It’s my time with the actors. Wes Anderson Read Quote
On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots. Wes Anderson Read Quote
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. Wes Anderson Read Quote
Every time you do a take on a movie, you’re not sure if it’s going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you’re kind of waiting for the release. ‘Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!’ There’s always the possibility that it’s just not going to work. Wes Anderson Read Quote
