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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • “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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  • 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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