If You Always Have To Be Watching

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.

I Think You Have To Ask Yourself, What Is The Point Of The Script? What Is The Script Selling? Because All Scripts Are Political, Every Story Is Political. It Either Challenges Or Reinforces Some Schism Or Stereotype. So What Is The Project Going To Say At The End Of The Day? What Does It Tell You About The World, Or What Does It Challenge In Terms Of Your World?

I Think You Have To Be Ready To Switch Gears And Go With The Team As A Director, As Opposed To Superimposing Your Own Strict Idea Of The Story. There Are Very Few Directors That Can Micromanage And Still Come Out With Something That's Living And Breathing On A Page. Wes Anderson Is One Of Those.

If You Can Just See All The Children Of The World As Your Own, All The Mothers Of The World As You Are, We Can Make A Huge Difference.

In Terms Of Our Foreign Policy, That's Where We Made A Mistake After 9/11. Everyone's Going, "why, Why, Why," And There Wasn't Any Investigation Or Learning From Any Of What We Had Been Doing Up To That Time That Had Set Us Up.