“The thing that most strongly made me want to do [Moonrise Kingdom] was remembering being a fifth grader sitting at a desk in my school and not really being able to focus on reality because of this girl two rows over and three desks up, and what a spell that put on me – being blindsided by that experience. It’s just something that always stuck with me – and not having anything come of it at all – so I just wanted to make a story that was my fantasy of that age.â€
- Filmmaker Wes Anderson to Hitfix on how his childhood fantasies inspired him to make Moonrise Kingdom.