Color plays a significant role in defining his directing management in all of his movies. Color is a powerful tool which Anderson takes advantage of. For example, in The Grand Budapest Hotel, he uses the furniture found in the lobby and creates beautiful patterns from them. Also, in the same movie he uses pastel colors such as pink to paint the hotel. In one scene, majority of the boxes are pink. In more detail found in The Royal Tenebaums, when Richie is attempting suicide, Anderson uses cool colors such as blue for the wallpapers, and unsaturated hue to support Richie’s sadness. And, finally, more warm colors can be found in Moonrise Kingdom, with the orange-yellow tents. In one statement, ”by intensifying certain colors, Anderson creates an immediate association with his films. When hearing the title of a particular Anderson film, often times it evokes certain colors" ("The Talks”). This quotation basically means that the audience can connect a certain visual color in mind to a certain movie of his because he allows that happen.
In an interview with BBC, Anderson says of his film The Royal Tenenbaums: “I am from Texas, but there were so many New York movies and novels which were among my favorites and I didn’t have an accurate idea of what New York was like. I wanted to create an exaggerated version of that imaginary New York” (Mayshark, 2007, p. 126). In other words, through the power of playing with colors, he can manifest beautiful reality(s) envisioned inside his