Matt Zoller Seitz, author of The Wes Anderson Collection, has shared excerpts from his new book. Among them are secrets and behind-the-scenes looks at films The Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and others.

Seitz revealed, via Vulture, that his first project Bottle Rocket was intended to be a feature film not a short, but it was rejected by the major film festivals.

Also divulged was that Bill Murrary was only paid $9,000 for his role in 1998's Rushmore. That role furthered his film career, as he ultimately received an Oscar nomination for Lost in Translation in 2004. But as Seitz pointed out, Murray even offered to contribute out of his own pocket for the cost of the film. Upon learning that Disney wouldn't pay for the use of a helicopter in the movie, he wrote a check for $25,000 so that it could happen. Anderson still has that check, uncashed to this day.

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Anderson also provided insight about his relationship with Owen Wilson, someone who frequently appears in his films and writes with the acclaimed director. They took a playwriting class at the University of Texas, where they both later graduated from, but according to Anderson, Wilson just began acting as if they were friends, talking to him as they "were signing up for classes and he started asking me to help him figure out what he should do, as if we knew each other.” A friendship and working relationship soon blossomed.