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Interview with Wes Anderson (2000)
Onion: What’s your approach to integrating songs into your films? They
play a key role in both Bottle Rocket and Rushmore.
WA: The songs are always a part of... That’s just always key stuff for me.
Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to
use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood.
That’s always essential to me.
O: Do you ever hear a song and think, “I have to have that in a movie?”
WA: Yeah, I do all the time.
O: What’s an example of that, a case where a song actually made it in?
WA: Every single song that’s in Rushmore.
O: Really?
WA: Yeah. They’re all songs where... With Rushmore, I originally had
songs I said I wanted to use in the movie, and then I did research in this
certain area of music, British Invasion music. I would just listen to songs
and I’d know what should go in there. There’s a song by the Stones called
“I Am Waiting,” which I was listening to a lot when I was driving around,
and suddenly I realized a certain part of the story... That whole part of the
story evolved out of the feeling that that song has. It’s like it was right for
a certain part of the story.
CB: So it was right for a certain part of the story?
O: Ignore him. So what drew you to the British Invasion in particular?
Was it the school uniforms?
WA: Um, yeah. Sort of that feeling. That combined with the teenage-angst
stuff.
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