Interview

COCKER: You wouldn’t get that with CGI, would you?

ANDERSON: No, you wouldn’t. But maybe you’d get some special computer programmers . . . I don’t know. I almost doubt it.

COCKER: I guess the way you’re doing that film with the stop-motion animation is kind of something that’s not done so much anymore.

ANDERSON: No, it’s not.

COCKER: I suppose the way that we recorded this album is somewhat similar to that. Generally speaking, when people make records now, they do it all on Pro Tools and then kind of pick the bit they want and then repeat it 25 times, or just pick 10 seconds from here and 10 seconds from there and put it together that way. And then I kind of thought that if you’re going to bother being in a band nowadays and making a record, then the only real reason to do it would be to capture what happens when five people all play together at the same time—and the kind of discrepancies and the different sort of a performance that you get when you do that.

ANDERSON: A bit of what happens live.

COCKER: Yeah. So, basically, we’re both working on outmoded, archaic forms.

ANDERSON: Yes, we’re leftovers. Dinosaurs—but youngish for dinosaurs.

COCKER: Happy dinosaurs. Very happy.

Wes Anderson is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. His next film, Fantastic Mr. Fox, is due out in November.