Francofile

May, 2016

A conversation with director Wes Anderson on J.D. Salinger, Owen Wilson, James Caan and the art of letting life lead the way JAMES FRANCO: You grew up in Houston and went to school at the University of Texas at Austin, where you studied philosophy. How did you end up making movies? WES ANDERSON: I studied phi­losophy, but I wanted to make mov­ies. The two big things for me when I went to the University of Texas were that it had a big, great library of movie books—and, at that time, VHS tapes and...