Growing up in Texas, Wes Anderson has always been interested in filmmaking, shooting Super 8 movies in his spare time and filming shorts to air on the local cable access station in Houston, where he also learned the art of editing.
He attended St. John's High School, during which time he wrote a number of plays.
Anderson was later accepted into Columbia University's film school, but decided not to go so that he could shoot his short film Bottle Rocket, starring his two good friends, Luke and Owen Wilson.