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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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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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The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.


— 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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To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.


— 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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You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.


— Paul Thomas Anderson


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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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