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Paul Thomas Anderson

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I write from my stomach.


— 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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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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I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.


— 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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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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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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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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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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Of course, I'm no dummy.


— Paul Thomas Anderson


#dummy #i






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Did you know about Paul Thomas Anderson?

He began writing in adolescence and at 17 years old he began experimenting with a Bolex sixteen millimetre camera. "
The film he made was Cigarettes & Coffee (1993) a short film made for $20000 connecting multiple story lines with a twenty-dollar bill.

In 2007 Total Film named him the twentieth greatest director of all time while the American Film Institute regards him as "one of American film's modern masters. " In 2011 Entertainment Weekly named him the tenth-greatest working director calling him "one of the most dynamic directors to emerge in the last twenty years. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards — There Will Be Blood for Best Achievement in Directing Best Motion Picture of the Year and Best Adapted Screenplay; Magnolia for Best Original Screenplay; and Boogie Nights for Best Original Screenplay.

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