The Grand Budapest Hotel

“And The Grand Budapest Hotel. You know, I think Wes is one of the people who is still trying to move cinema somewhere else. The way that he composes his shots, the way he tries to not edit too much within a scene but do it with camera movement. I don’t think he really gets that much credit for being, in a way, quite experimental in that way. So... That will calm me down after 120 Days of Sodom.”

“The Grand Budapest Hotel, maybe becoming my favorite Wes Anderson movie. I was obsessed with Wes Anderson in high school. I don't think there are any American filmmakers out there who are building their own language and have been doing it for as long as he has and as beautifully as he has. I feel like this is the movie where his style starts becoming obsessed with nesting doll storytelling until the film itself is almost this hyper elaborate and beautiful nesting doll of a world.”

“Here’s what I want to say about Grand Budapest Hotel. I think Ralph Fiennes should’ve been nominated for an Oscar. And he was so very funny. And also, you know, deeply sad. It was real emotion to the character he was playing, who was trying to hold onto this thing, this past that wasn’t going to be part of his present or his future. And so those are the two real oversights for the Academy, I think, as far as comedy not getting Oscar, which is Ralph Fiennes and then Ted Knight in Caddyshack.”