Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.