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Paul Thomas Anderson

Filmmaker

"My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films... 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."

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Born in the 1970s

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A little about Paul

Inspiration for Boogie Nights

He wrote and filmed his first real production as a senior in high school at Montclair Prep using money he earned cleaning cages at a pet store. The film was a 30-minute mockumentary shot on video called The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), about a pornogr...

Welcome to English, I'm Professor Wallace

He only spent two semesters enrolled at Emerson University but during one of them, his English professor was David Foster Wallace.

Dating Fiona Apple

Anderson dated Fiona Apple from 1997 to 2002. During their relationship, the two used ecstasy and cocaine; Apple described him as having a temper and leaving her "fearful and numb," throwing a chair across the room and shoving her out of his car.

"Film school"

He only lasted two days at New York University for film school. Feeling that the material shown to him at film school turned the experience into "homework or a chore", Anderson decided to make a 20-minute film that would be his "college". For $10,0...

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If he could go back, this is what he'd tell himself while making Magnolia

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If he could go back, this is what he'd tell himself while making Magnolia

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Chill The Fuck Out and Cut Twenty Minutes

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If he ever watches his own movies if they come on TV

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If he ever watches his own movies if they come on TV

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usually for a split second ...and then....switch....

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Favorite authors

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Favorite authors

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Chester Himes! Thomas Pynchon (obviosuly) john o'hara..John Steinbeck...George Orwell....Shirley Jackson! Caroline Blackwood

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Favorite Radiohead album

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Favorite Radiohead album

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Favorite Radiohead album...........ugh...i Hate this game. today....In Rainbows....tomorrow....something else...KId A perhaps?

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Books on his nightstand

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Books on his nightstand

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The stack next to my bed is embarrassingly High. the one on my desk right now is "3 Ingredient Cocktails" by Robert Simonson. Great Read!

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Writing dialogue for movies

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Writing dialogue for movies

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Question: When I think of dialog, it sounds good in my head. But when I put it on paper it becomes garbage. How would you solve this problem? Answer: hmmmmmm. good question. what's it sound like when you say it out loud? it doesn't need to look good on the paper if it's a script....a novel maybe, but a script is just a temporary thing....good for the actors, not for reading....

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Favorite female directors

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Favorite female directors

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Kasi Lemmons! Kathryn Bigelow.

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Favorite comfort movie

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Favorite comfort movie

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The Birdcage! or anything by Steven Spielberg.

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Best movies of 2017

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Best movies of 2017

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Call Me By Your Name. City Of Ghosts. Wonder Woman. The Post. Lost City of Z. Star Wars. Baby Driver. I'm missing some and haven't seen a lot....I"m still catching up....

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Favorite David Lynch movies

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Favorite David Lynch movies

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Blue Velvet Wild At Heart

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Favorite Robert Altman film

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Favorite Robert Altman film

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Nashville!

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Favorite film from the silent era

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Favorite film from the silent era

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Sunrise

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Favorite memory of David Foster Wallace

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Favorite memory of David Foster Wallace

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He turned me onto Don DeLillo. And he looked at us like we were all failing him....sweetly.

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Advice for the lazy aspiring writer

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Advice for the lazy aspiring writer

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keep sleeping.....then get off the couch.

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Favorite movie-going experience in a theater

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Favorite movie-going experience in a theater

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Raiders of the Lost Arc at the La Reina Theater. 1980. Friday Afternoon. Opening Day.

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What it was like making the documentary Junun

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What it was like making the documentary Junun

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It was so much fun. I loved working with my little Blackmagic camera and filming people pay music...it was stress free and inspiring...more of a home movie than a documentary.

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Advice for a near broke 18 year old filmmaker

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Advice for a near broke 18 year old filmmaker

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Get a job? Make some money? Get a haircut?

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How often Maya Rudolph makes him fall over laughing

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How often Maya Rudolph makes him fall over laughing

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every day

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Which movie of his own is he most proud of

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Which movie of his own is he most proud of

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The Master

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Advice for someone who wants to break into the film industry

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Advice for someone who wants to break into the film industry

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It seems to be that the most sought after position in Hollywood with the least amount of competition is...writing....writing is the best job if you can get it....people are hungry for scripts...keep writing. Writing, writing, writing....

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