This supplemental one-volume companion to THE WES ANDERSON COLLECTION is the only book to take readers behind the scenes of The Grand Budapest Hotel with in-depth interviews between Anderson and Matt Zoller Seitz. Anderson shares the story behind the film's conception, the wide variety of sources that inspired it from Stefan Zweig to Ernst Lubitsch to Photochrom landscapes from turn-of-the-century Middle Europe, personal anecdotes about the making of the film.