For me, he is the greatest of them all. He’s very good at putting distance between himself and the material and the characters... And the way he is dealing with the narrative… he is leaving characters after a while and finding new ones. In 'The Phantom of Liberty' (Le fantôme de la liberté, 1974), he leaves a character and then the camera finds another one, and he is very good with that.
It's a bit of an anthology film, with a framework. I guess like, for example, 'The Phantom of Liberty' by Buñuel, there's a feeling of that kind of movie sometimes, where characters just pass the baton, so to speak.
— Wes Anderson · IndieWire, "Wes Anderson on the ‘French Dispatch’ Opening and 6-Year Wait for Another Animated Film"
It's a bit of an anthology film, with a framework. I guess like, for example, 'The Phantom of Liberty' by Buñuel, there's a feeling of that kind of movie sometimes, where characters just pass the baton.
It's a bit of an anthology film, with a framework... there's a feeling of that kind of movie sometimes, where characters just pass the baton, so to speak.