Jeff Goldblum (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs): He gets the best people around him because he's such a genius.

F. Murray Abraham (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs): When you meet him, you want to be around him—you want to be part of his society.

Bill Murray: Shirt, $530, by Marni / Tie, $225, by Tom Ford / Ring, his own DALiM Greta Gerwig: Blazer (men's) $2,420, by Gucci DALiM

Wes Anderson: We never go through the agent.

Kunichi Nomura (actor, writer, and casting director, Isle of Dogs): Agents are going to charge a lot. It's like, fuck that.

Harvey Keitel (Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs): [Wes and I] first met at the Café Einstein in Berlin. The music of the crowd stirring their coffee cups, sipping their wine, chatter. Candlelight reflecting shadows that danced. We got married and had a baby.

Courtney B. Vance (narrator, Isle of Dogs): My experience with him started at Sundance—30 years ago? I believe there was a project that was happening and an actor—I forget his name—John? He got sick and had to leave the [Sundance Film] Institute, and Wes needed somebody to step in. John later got the Oscar, I think. For Chicago. [John C. Reilly was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 2002 for his role in 'Chicago,' but lost to Jim Broadbent.]

Sundance Film Institute: We can confirm that Wes Anderson was present at the 1993 summer labs working on Bottle Rocket and that Courtney B. Vance was there that same year. We can also confirm that John C. Reilly was there that year for another project.

Wes Anderson: I just loved Courtney, but he didn't know who we were. We had been waiting to be put to work on Bottle Rocket, and the day we arrived they said, "The day after tomorrow Jim [Bottle Rocket executive producer James L. Brooks] wants you to do a reading." Because we had done a terrible reading of it in Texas. It was like four hours long. Poor Jim.

But anyway, Courtney Vance. I have always wanted to have him in something. And in Isle of Dogs, it was like we needed a voice of the whole movie.

Kunichi Nomura: Suit, $3,845, shirt, $495, by Brunello Cucinelli / Boots, by Givenchy / Sunglasses, his own DALiM Jason Schwartzman: Suit, $2,995, by Maison Margiela / Shirt, $345, by Hamilton Shirts / Tie, $70, by Tommy Hilfiger / Boots, $135, by Florsheim DALiM

Bob Balaban (Moonrise Kingdom, Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs): With Wes in charge, it's like if you get a group of unruly lions and there's a really smart lion tamer, immediately the lions just go, "Oh, I see. We have a leader here. We don't have to lead." You just want to do anything that Wes is doing. I think Bill Murray's been in all 900 movies. Sometimes he's the star of it, and sometimes he just comes and says a few things, because you're just very happy to be there.

Bill Murray (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs): Wes must have known someone [who was cuckolded] that he loved very much. Cuckolding is always sort of a sympathetic situation. Rarely is a cuckold a hated person—usually sort of a victim. You feel sorry for him, you know? You feel: "Why? He was a good one." Maybe it's sort of an armoring against it ever happening to himself. I think that's what it is.

Wes Anderson: I guess [Bill gets cuckolded] in Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom? And Rushmore. And maybe Life Aquatic. [Anjelica Huston] seems to have something going on with Jeff Goldblum. It never even occurred to me that we see that. Sometimes there's something that you can link from movie to movie that the biographer would say, "Ah, yes, we're following this." In this case, it might just be random coincidence.