THE BRAINSTORM

WES ANDERSON [SCREENWRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER]: I don’t think I really read The New Yorker until I was maybe 16. First, I read it because I wanted to read the short stories… that was what first interested me. Then I got interested in the reportage and the magazine changed over the years and leaned more towards that… the journalistic pieces became more important to the magazine, I think.

ROMAN COPPOLA [STORY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER]: I remember sitting with Wes over a meal, and talking about A.J. Liebling, who is the writer from The New Yorker who often wrote about Paris and food. And we