Speaking at the Venice Film Festival, where he's premiering Roald Dahl adaptation 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,' the director also addressed the subject of Dahl's books being edited.
Anderson added: “But every time I do a movie I feel like I’m doing something completely different. I’m going to a new territory and telling a different kind of story with a new set of characters and different mix of actors, but I know there are so many things that link what I’m drawn to in general and I guess it is a thing you can see… it’s me.”
During the media meet, Anderson discussed the controversial decision to edit several Roald Dahl books to remove language now deemed to be offensive, saying that he didn’t even think artists themselves should be allowed to edit their own works. “If you ask me if Renoir should be allowed to touch up one of his pictures, I would say no. It’s done,” he said. “I don’t even want the artist to modify their work. I understand the motivation for it, but I’m in the school where when the piece of work is done we participate in it. We know it. So I think when it’s done, it’s done. And certainly no one who is not an author should be modifying somebody’s book. He’s dead.
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