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You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast. -- Paul Thomas 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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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Of course, I'm no dummy. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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! -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape 'Blood', to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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Kill your television! -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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I don't want to be the angry guy. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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I write from my stomach. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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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. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
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No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay. -- Paul Thomas Anderson