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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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" 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. "

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" Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging. "

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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. "

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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. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically. "

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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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" I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak. "

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

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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 don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood. "

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" Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. "

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