Quotes from Wes Anderson

I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny.

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

You see? There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant - (sighs deeply). Oh, fuck it. -M. Gustave, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

I don't think any of us are normal people.

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

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

Son of a bitch, I'm sick of these dolphins.

MR. MOUSTAFA There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once know as humanity... He was one of them. What more is there to say?

But in the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant.

You're looking so well, darling. You really are. They've done a marvelous job. I don't know what sort of cream they've put on you down at the morgue, but I want some. Honestly, you look better than you have in years. You look like you're alive!

For my dearest darling, treasured, cherished Agatha whom I worship. With respect, adoration, admiration, kisses, gratitude, best wishes, and love from Z to A.

There's really no point in doing anything in life because it's all over in the blink of an eye. The next thing you know, rigor mortis sets in.

She stabbed Redford in the back with lefty scissors!

Maybe with good luck we'll find what eluded us in the places we once called home.

Who's to say? But he didn't deserve to die.

I've always been considered an asshole for about as long as I can remember. That's just my style.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

Mr. Moustafa) I think his world ended long before he even entered it. Although I must say, he certainly maintained the illusion with a marvelous grace.

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.

I think you've still got lightning in you.

When you finish work, practically everybody in that place is going to watch a movie at night anyway. They're tired. They have dinner. They go up to their room. They're watching TV.

Mostly with commercial work, it isn't about personal vision. It's not a personal effort, it's work for hire. That's more my attitude with those. You just want to be a professional worker.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.