I was very in to Bottle Rocket when it came out and quickly became a fan of Wes Anderson's work. He hasn't had a film I disliked, but there have certainly been some I appreciated more than others. For me, Royal Tenenbaums is about as good as a film gets. The acting from Gene Hackman, Angelica Houston and Danny Glover alone is worth seeing it. I love the characters, they're all larger than life, absurd and yet there's nothing overtly unbelievable about them. Those people could all exist. The attention to detail in the film is amazing and most importantly, I find it to be very, very funny. When I first saw that film, I left the theatre having laughed, cried and having been in awe. It's an amazing piece of work in my opinion. He's also one of those directors that I'm close to in age and therefore, I feel like his art is progressing in accordance with my own understanding of the world of art and film. I dig him.