Wes Anderson in conversation with The New Yorker’s Susan Morrison, in An Editor’s Burial:
WES: Well, I’ve had an apartment in Paris for I don’t know how many years. I’ve reverse emigrated. And in Paris, any time I walk down a street I don’t know well, it’s like going to the movies. It’s just entertaining. There’s also a sort of isolation living abroad, which can be good or it can be bad. It can be lonely, certainly. But you’re also always on a kind of adventure, which can be inspiring.
SUSAN: Harold Ross, The New Yorker’s founding editor, was famous for saying that the history of New York is always written by out-of-towners. When you’re out of your element, or in another country, you have a different perspective. It’s as if a pilot light is always on.
WES: Yes! The pilot light is always on.
SUSAN: In a foreign country, even just going into a hardware store can be like going to a museum.
WES: Buying a light bulb.
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