Close-ups Quotes

“His film sets are full of artists feeding off one another's talents, functioning as a helix for art and life. It's like a hall-of-mirrors where real concerns are reflected as characters' concerns and redeemed, at least in the moment of creation, by the recognition of what art can offer. (page 37)”
― Sophie Monks Kaufman, Close-ups: Wes Anderson

“A strange — in some ways true, in some ways false — sense of intimacy is born from studying an artist. I don't know Wes Anderson personally. I don't know his favourite foods or what puts him in moods or possess any of the private understandings that make up a real relationship. I do know that, at some point in his life, his understanding of sadness connected to my understanding of sadness, and that he took the Herculean step of siphoning this understanding into a film strong enough to hold me whenever I have need of it. (page 26)”
― Sophie Monks Kaufman, Close-ups: Wes Anderson