"Try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose": Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch"

In Wes Anderson's new movie "The French Dispatch", Bill Murray plays Arthur Howitzer Jr., the editor of a magazine, "The French Dispatch", that is published in the town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, France; his writers are played by Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Francis McDormand, and Jeffrey Wright; and his motto comes up several times in the course of the film: "Try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose." That also applies to Anderson's filmmaking, with the geometric sets, the singular camera movement, and a use of voiceover narration that makes it sound like he wrote it that way on purpose, not out of a failure of cinematic vision. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 26 November 2021)