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Paul Thomas Anderson [1970-0] American

Rank: 102
Director, Film director

Paul Thomas Anderson also known as P.T. Anderson, is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Interested in film-making at a young age, Anderson was encouraged by his father Ernie Anderson to become a filmmaker.

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I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.		101
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.		102
I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.	Hope	103
I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!		104
No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.		105
I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.		106
It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.		107
You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.		108
Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.		109
To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.		110
I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.		111
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.		112
I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.		113
How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.		114
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.		115
Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.		116
I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.		117
No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.		118
I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.		119
Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.		120
But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.		121
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.		122
I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape 'Blood', to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it.		123
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.		124
I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.		125
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.		126
Of course, I'm no dummy.		201
I don't want to be the angry guy.		202
I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.		203
My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.		204
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.		205
I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.		206
Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.		207
I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.		208
You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.		209
There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.		210
As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.		211
Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.		212
I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.		213
I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.		214
I write from my stomach.		215
My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.		216
I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.		217

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