“I think certain criticisms that I’ve heard about myself repeatedly start to linger,” Fantastic Mr. Fox director Wes Anderson has told L.A.Weekly‘s Joe Donnelly. “The things that I think about are whether or not I’m telling the same kind of family stories and whether these movies are so meticulously art-directed or organized that people can’t get into the story.
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Fantastic Mr.Fox display in window of Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman.
“The hardest things are just the movies you spend years on. Not everybody’s occupation in their life is [about] this moment where it’s kind of yes or no, where there’s a kind of deciding moment for the three years you just spent. And when the movie comes out, it can go badly.
“I feel like with Darjeeling Limited, I got a lot of people saying I was repeating certain things. But for me, I was doing a movie in India about these three brothers and those things are different. I mean, it’s in India. It’s a completely different movie.
“In the end, I just do whatever I do, probably,” he says.
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