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Paul Thomas Anderson
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 26
Film Director
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Studio City
Los Angeles
P. T. Anderson
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I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
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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.
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I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.
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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.
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We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?
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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.
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How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't want to be the angry guy.
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If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.
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I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.
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To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.
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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.
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As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.
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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!
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You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.
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I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
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