Wes Anderson

“I'm going to do The 39 Steps, Alfred Hitchcock. We know this movie. It's a reliable, standby classic. It's gonna play.”

“This one, my daughter loves this movie. This is one of my favorite movies ever made. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, two of my favorite filmmakers of all time.”

“Lubitsch, Heaven Can Wait.”

“Also Lubitsch: Design for Living.”

“You know, I didn't pull The Lady Eve. Where is The Lady Eve? I just thought maybe I should have pulled that one. You guys know exactly where everything is. That laser pointer took me right to The Lady Eve. Henry Fonda, Preston Sturges, Barbara Stanwyck, one of the greatest actresses in the history of the cinema, as everybody knows.”

“Stagecoach, John Ford.”

“Tootsie. We know how good this cast is, but, remember, Bill Murray is in there and he's great.”

“I'm going to take Flow. Everybody in the family has seen this one, but it's a crowd-pleaser. They'll watch it again. They'll thank me for bringing it.”

“Okay, this is a good one to end on. This is one of the best of Satyajit Ray's films, maybe the best of Satyajit Ray's films. I stole many things for my own movies from Ray, and this one, this woman... Charulata, they translate it as The Lonely Wife, she spends much of her time looking out from the rooms in her house with binoculars. And for my film Moonrise Kingdom, which is out here somewhere, we've got a lot of binocular shots, only because of Satyajit Ray, one of my favorite great masters of cinema. And in fact, here at the Hollywood Bowl, we're playing some music that he wrote.”