Wes Anderson Quotes

I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's 'Don Quixote' or 'Ulysses,' there's always this sense of a quest - of a person going away to be tested, and coming back.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

Quest stories are about the oldest form of narrative there is, and they're also the perfect metaphor for life because we're all on a journey trying to figure out where we're going and who we are. 'Solomon Creed' is just doing it with more danger and guns involved.

I go wherever the good story is.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.