If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.

Acting is kind of a forced compassion, where you learn that given certain circumstances, you can feel and do things that you never thought yourself capable of. And so it stops you from being super-judgmental.

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By the time I went to the Catholic University of America, which was the time the priests were all leaving with the nuns, the more I studied about the Bible and how it came about, the more I lost my faith.

Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

Being a Catholic, I was drawn to the mystery of the Latin and the smoke and the mirrors and all of that. That part of my disposition definitely did lend itself to finding my way to the back door of some artistic pursuit.