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
risk sometimes minutes
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.
school kids thinking
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!
book school bad-day
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.
writing who-i-am people
My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.
character thinking two
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.
rebel
I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.
moving-forward littles smooth
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.