Screenwriting 101: Wes Anderson

“The project almost always begins with a character or a group of characters. Usually there’s a sort of world that’s tied in. The last film I did, The Grand Budapest Hotel, there was a person we were modeling this role, this character who Ralph Fiennes plays in the film. There’s a real inspiration for him, and he was someone my co-writer Hugo Guinness [and I] were close to. In that case, if we put a style to it, it could be a literary style because of the way he talks. We wanted to write the way he talks to create a character in that way. But in that case it’s really the character that comes first.”

— Wes Anderson