Vanity Fair

Cinephilia and Beyond claims to have gotten hold of a 1999 note written by the auteur to fellow filmmaker James Brooks, who helped Anderson fund his first feature-length film, Bottle Rocket, and wrote an introduction to Anderson’s Rushmore screenplay, which was published by Faber & Faber. The note appears to have been carefully handwritten in an all caps and a tone that call to mind one of Anderson’s children protagonists—whose handwritten letters have advanced plots in his films, including Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Moonrise Kingdom.