Anderson made the comments at a press conference with actors Benicio del Toro, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Cera, Mia Threapleton, Riz Ahmed, Rupert Friend and Richard Ayoade. It followed the Sunday night premiere of “The Phoenician Scheme,” his fourth movie to premiere in competition in Cannes.

Wes Anderson skewered Donald Trump’s proposed foreign film tariff at a Cannes press conference for his new film "The Phoenician Scheme," questioning how it will work. “Can you hold up the movie in customs?

"Can you hold up the movie in customs?" the director asked at Cannes Film Festival, wondering about how the president's would impose his supposed 100 percent tariffs on movies made outside of the U.S.