“I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films."

“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. That was certainly the case with this movie. In the end, it doesn't resemble anything like what I had in my mind. And yet, piece by piece, they were all things we chose together along the way.”

Wes Anderson is the second of three brothers, born and raised in Houston, Texas.  His father was in advertising and is now in public relations and his mother moved from archaeology to real estate.  He studied philosophy at the University of Texas, where he met long-time friend and collaborator, Owen Wilson.  Together they made the short film Bottle Rocket, which attracted sufficient attention to receive funding to make a feature version which was shown at Sundance.  Since then he has made several quirky, but critically acclaimed films.  He cites Satyajit Ray as a major influence on his work.  He also produced films and made commercials.  He is currently working on a remake of My Best Friend.