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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
Really
Me
Baby
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" I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing. "
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High School
" The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Like
Stories
Love
" 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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Risk
Sometimes
Ahead
" I don't want to be the angry guy. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Guy
Want
Angry
" 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
People
You
Ahead
" Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Play
Tell
Crazy
" 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. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Used
Fun
Now
" 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
True
Him
Never
" 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
Will
Blood
Book
" 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. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
You
Yourself
Time
" 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
Father
Sister
Rock
" I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape 'Blood', to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Trying
Struggles
Right
" How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Respond
Listen
Criticism
" I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Word
Desire
Shoot
" I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
You
I Am
Looking
" 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. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Good
Think
Know
" I write from my stomach. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Write
Stomach
I Write
" Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Work
Actor
Love
" Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Go
Forward
You
" Of course, I'm no dummy. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Dummy
Course
" I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Think
Hollywood
Movies
" 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
American
Happiness
Day
" To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Composer
Big
You
" As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Father
Got
Less
" There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Songwriters
Steal
Point
" You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Difficult
Sometimes
You
" Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
World
Acting
Ditch
" 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
I Am
Life
Writing
" No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Just Do It
Just
Kind
" I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak. "
Paul Thomas Anderson
Control
Control Freak
Fact