Wes Anderson: ‘Please do not send me memes of people doing me’

When Wes Anderson was 13 he decided to leave his home in Houston and spend the rest of his schooldays in France. It never happened, of course. His mother, an archaeologist, and father, who worked in the advertising industry, wouldn't countenance the move. But still, he says, "I kept trying to make the case that I would do better in science and math if I went out there. I just had this idea that I wanted to go to school in France and that somehow I could be sent away there."

Anderson tells me this in a hotel room at the Cannes Film Festival where his latest movie, Asteroid City, has been premiered to near unanimous adoration. The film, which is about a junior