For someone who said "One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor", Wes Anderson has certainly picked up a mass of avid film fans along the way for his ability to create movie masterpieces. With Anderson's most recognisable films comprising The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom, and Fantastic Mr Fox, fans will be aware that his use of alternative camera and filming styles are what makes his productions a notch above others in 21st century cinema. Anderson has been noted for his extensive use of flat space camera moves, obsessively symmetrical compositions, slow-motion walking shots, a deliberately limited colour palette, and hand-made art direction often utilising miniatures. Anderson himself has commented that these techniques give his movies the feel of being 'self-contained worlds'. If you're an adoring fan, you might say his films are almost magical, and his characters memorable enough to have had some sort of effect on you outside of their screenings. While Anderson is better known for his visual techniques and narrative style than he is his philosophical views on life, it's never too late to hand-pick from a few films in order to find the inspiration within them
I love Stephen King and music festivals; I eat my toast upside down; I daydream about getting married probably a bit too much; and I wish every day for a pet sausage dog puppy (who never materialises – sob).
