Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Andersonalso known as P.T. Anderson, is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Interested in film-making at a young age, Anderson was encouraged by his father Ernie Andersonto become a filmmaker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth26 June 1970
CountryUnited States of America
jobs hardest-job acting
Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.
rain fall orange
It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going to end up doing something that he's probably already done before. It always seem like we're falling behind whatever he came up with. 'Singin' in the Rain'' in Clockwork Orange - that was the first time I became so aware of music in movies. So no matter how hard you try to do something new, you're always following behind.
criticism
How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.
thinking competition hollywood
I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.
night thinking mcdonalds
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.
writing stomach
I write from my stomach.
father film
As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.
sadness matter film
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.
people film adages
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.
dummy courses
Of course, I'm no dummy.
stealing term screenwriters
There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.
stuff stories film
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
jobs book firsts
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.
baby feels acknowledge
I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.