"The Phoenician Scheme" writer/director Wes Anderson discusses his personal inspirations for the movie, as well as why Benicio del Toro was the only choice for Zsa-zsa Korda. Interview.

"It just didn't seem that he was faking it. We knew very quickly he was going to be an informal God," Anderson says of his star.

A peculiar tension exists inside nearly every frame created by writer-director Wes Anderson. The geometric visual preoccupation of the framing; the actors, sometimes in motion but more frequently motionless;