An afternoon with the Asteroid City director in an apartment he describes as “not very well maintained” and “a bit abandoned.”
with his surname. Lartigue was a mentor to Jacques Cousteau, the inspiration for Steve Zissou, and the portrait of Zissou’s mentor, Lord Mandrake, is modeled on a photographe of Lartigue.Photo: Matt Zoller Seitz. He has a collection of his work, and on a nearby wall is a large-format Greenfield-Sanders portrait of Orson Welles. “One day, I was coming into the building after being away and I saw this poster downstairs,” Anderson says.
If all mankind can practice this kind of meditation — sitting, standing or lying down — at least the elite and the “leaders,” premiers, presidents, dictators and senators can do so — I do as best as I can.“There really is no point in losing your temper,” Anderson says, “especially with a New York roofer.”
On the same corkboard is a mixed-media piece by the filmmaker and painter Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who is best known for directing the Beatles documentary. “Michael is one of my favorite living humans,” Anderson says. “He does these wonderful characters that he invents, one after another. I’ve known him as long as I’ve had this place, probably.
since I recommended the Mitchell collection to him, and while he has always been forthcoming about his inspirations and the details of his productions, he has grown guarded when it comes to explaining what you might call his “primal motifs.” Today I try to come back around toa movie that’s full of them. It’s built around a widowed single father, played by Jason Schwartzman, who rose to fame in Anderson’s“You’ve got a lot of widows and widowers in your movies, and orphans,” I say.Wes grins.
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