Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I don't want to be the angry guy.
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To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.
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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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You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.
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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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Of course, I'm no dummy.
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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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There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.
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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.
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Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
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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.
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I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.
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The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.