Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.”
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“I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.”
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“I guess what I like in my movies is where you see a character change by maybe two degrees as opposed to the traditional movie change of ninety degrees. I guess that always feels false to me in movies because that doesn't truly happen. Around me, at least in the life I live, I guess I don't see people change ninety or a hundred degrees. I see them change in very small increments. I think it's just a monitor I might have on myself as a writer to not make any false scenes.”
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“Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.”
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“My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the 'Bad Day at Black Rock' laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.”
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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 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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“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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“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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“I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.”
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“I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.”
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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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“To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.”
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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'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.”
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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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“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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