American - Director | June 26, 1970 -
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.
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.
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Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.
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I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.
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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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I write from my stomach.
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My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.
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