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By Wes Anderson's second feature, Rushmore , he pretty much had things figured out. At one point in that film, Herman Blume (Bill Murray), a morose middle-aged industrialist, asks Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), a precocious teenager, what the secret is. And Fischer says, "I think you just gotta find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life."

For the past thirty-plus years, Anderson has been doing just that. What the director loves to do is make movies, yes—but really, it's more specific than that. Anderson likes to create films in his own particular style (symmetrical, colorful, meticulously arranged

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