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Paul Thomas Anderson Wiki Biography

Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Interested in film-making at a young age, Anderson was encouraged by his father Ernie Anderson (a disc jockey, and television and radio announcer/voiceover artist) to become a filmmaker. Anderson is a distinctive and revered filmmaker of his generation, initially being praised as a wunderkind after the release of Boogie Nights and Magnolia.In 1993, he wrote and directed a short film titled Cigarettes & Coffee on a budget of $20,000. After he attended the Sundance Institute, Anderson had a deal with Rysher Entertainment to direct his first feature film, Hard Eight, in 1996. Anderson received critical and commercial success for his film Boogie Nights (1997), set during the Golden Age of Porn in the 1970s and 1980s. His third feature, Magnolia (1999), received wide acclaim despite struggling at the box office.In 2002, Punch-Drunk Love, Anderson’s fourth feature, was released to positive reviews. After a five-year absence, There Will Be Blood was released to critical acclaim in 2007. It is Anderson’s highest-grossing film to date and is considered by many critics to be one of the most important films of the 2000s. In 2012, Anderson’s sixth film, The Master, was released to critical acclaim. His seventh film, Inherent Vice, based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon, is scheduled for release in December 2014. IMDB Wikipedia $50 million 1970 1970-6-26 6′ (1.83 m) Boogie Nights (1997) California Cancer Director June 26 Magnolia (1999) Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson Net Worth producer Studio City The Master (2012) There Will Be Blood (2007) USA Writer

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Paul Thomas Anderson Trademarks

1. Often shoots very wide angles and moving tracking shots
2. [Recurring names] Paul Thomas Anderson has used Philip Seymour Hoffman in five films and Jon Brion in four films; Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Melora Walters and Luis Guzmán in three films; Alfred Molina, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Ricky Jay, Michael Penn, Mary Lynn Rajskub, ‘Kevin J. O’Connor (I)’, David Warshofsky, Paul F. Tompkins and Joaquin Phoenix in two films.
3. Most of his early films feature large ensemble casts, often featuring Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzmán, and/or Melora Walters.
4. Most of his early films are set in the San Fernando Valley, California
5. Frequently uses extended takes
6. Frequently uses the Iris In/Out film technique. This technique has one part of the scene encircled, while the rest is black. Also used during the silent film era as a way of opening and closing shots.
7. [Camel cigarettes] All smoking characters in Anderson’s early movies smoke Camel cigarettes – Philip Baker Hall smokes Camel Filters in Hard Eight (1996), William H. Macy smokes Camel Lights in Magnolia (1999).

Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes

• [on Joaquin Phoenix] He’s like a dog that will fetch the ball over and over and over again. You can throw it down the cliff, you can throw it into the snow, you can throw it in the ocean, and he will go get the ball and bring it back. And he will curl up in your lap and keep you warm by the fire. He’s the best dog I’ve ever had.
• [on writing realistic dialogue for characters who are using cocaine] I’ve done a lot of coke and had those insane conversations.
• [on Inherent Vice (2014)] It has great paranoia, which you must have if you’re doing a Pynchon book. But most of all it seemed to be a way to address something that’s prevalent in all his books; that outlandish spirit, the humor, the nostalgia – that kind of sweet, dripping aching for the past.
• Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
• [on Robert Altman] I knew him pretty well, off and on for about 10 years, but I had gotten to know him particularly well in the last three or four years. I got to watch Bob navigate that film, and I watched how good he was at evading questions, in the best way. He was really good at not committing himself too early to something. He didn’t impose his will early. He loved to work with people. He loved to see what they came up with. He would give things time to settle, to rise or to fall, and watching him do that was a great lesson in patience. Because at the end of the day, he invited everybody in to work on this film, but he ended up getting exactly what he wanted, and everyone else felt that they had been part of it, because they had. They really made the film with Bob. How he did that was a lesson to me.
• Well I’d really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he’s still the most talented actor out there. Maybe he makes some bad choices, which can be frustrating. On the one hand, you want to say, ‘What the fuck’s going on?’ On the other, you can’t get mad at him for wanting to work, because most actors would be murderers if they weren’t working.
• 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. If not, that’s my fuck-up.
• On Stanley Kubrick: 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 (1952) in A Clockwork Orange (1971) – 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.
• [on Stanley Kubrick] We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?
• 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.
• I remember the bad outfits my parents dressed me up in and my Beatles haircut but I never watched The Brady Bunch (1969). The Partridges? I hated their music.
• All of life’s questions and answers are in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). It’s about greed and ambition and paranoia and looking at the worst parts of yourself. When I was writing There Will Be Blood (2007), I would put “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” on before I went to bed at night, just to fall asleep to it.
• [on buying a copy of Upton Sinclair’s “Oil!”, which he adapted into There Will Be Blood (2007)] I was homesick and the book had a painting of California on the cover.
• [on researching for There Will Be Blood (2007)] After a few trips to Bakersfield, where they have museums devoted to the early oilmen, I started to get a sense of the film. The museums are largely trailers with a lot of oil equipment lying around the yard. Back in the day, enough people had cameras and they took a lot of pictures. Oil fields were an interesting thing to photograph, and that research made it easy to put the pieces of their times together.
• [on the popular belief that Daniel Day-Lewis is indifferent or not completely committed to remaining an actor] That is an amazing misconception. Daniel loves acting so much that it becomes a quest for perfection. People don’t know how Daniel can do this job the way that he does it, and my feeling is, I just can’t understand how anyone could do it any other way.
• [on the meaning of Magnolia (1999)’s ending] Oh, how I hate it, when directors are supposed to explain their films. I only say this much: If I had had more cash, I would have let it rain cats and dogs.
• All I wanna try and do is sing “Melancholy Baby”, y’know, but then it starts to come out like “The Star Spangled Banner” half the time.
• I watch [Steven Spielberg] movies, and know: Those are fairy tales. I understand what he does. And I make a film on cancer and frogs – however I want that many spectators nevertheless! I find that is a good goal, and I consider it a weakness of mine that I haven’t reached it yet.
• Today’s movie villains often remind us of James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart and that’s as cool as it gets. There’s something comforting if they’re hip and cool. They’re not entirely real, or not entirely threatening, so it might be a little easier to swallow if they remind us of traditional movie villains.
• You can really see a strong and distinctive line between ’70s and ’80s porn, not just in the quality but in the spirit behind it.
• I had older brothers and sisters who were doing drugs and playing rock music and doing all those insane things. I was watching.
• My dad was one of the first guys on the block to have a VCR. So along with all the videotapes that I would rummage through, I would find porno movies. Not that it twisted me into some maniac or anything. I was watching porno from age 10 to 17. I had an interest in it.
• I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I’ll make pretty good movies the rest of my life. And maybe I’ll make some clunkers, maybe I’ll make some winners, but I guess the way that I really feel is that Magnolia (1999) is, for better or worse, the best movie I’ll ever make.

Paul Thomas Anderson Important Facts

• He is the only Director to win a best director prize at each of the big European film festivals. He won at Cannes for Punch Drunk Love, at Berlin for There Will be Blood, and at Venice for The Master.
• Was described as ‘his evil twin bother’ by Daniel Day-Lewis when Day-Lewis was accepting the Critics’ Choice Award for best actor for his performance in There Will Be Blood in 2008.
• Got the initial idea for Hard Eight (1996) after watching Philip Baker Hall in Midnight Run (1988) according to a 2008 ‘Esquire’ article: “In the summer of 1988, for example, when Midnight Run (1988) came out. It was a fairly formulaic action-comedy, and Martin Brest wasn’t even close to Anderson’s pantheon of cool directors, but one thing caught his eye: a little-known actor named Philip Baker Hall. In four very brief scenes, Hall plays a Las Vegas consigliere who keeps trying to convince his godfather not to whack people. His name was Sidney. “I don’t think you should do this,” he says in one scene. In another, he uses the curiously formal diction that seems to have hit Anderson in the place where he vibrates to the rhythms of David Mamet: “I’m supposed to advise you against such acts.””.
• His English teacher at Emerson College was renowned writer David Foster Wallace. Anderson has described him as the only teacher he ever loved, and stated in an interview with Marc Maron that his dropping out of Emerson College after a year was largely due to Wallace having left.
• A longtime Thomas Pynchon devotee.
• Cites Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Jonathan Demme, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, and Max Ophüls as his main influences as a filmmaker.
• Once described Magnolia (1999) as “for better or worse, the best movie I’ll ever make”.
• Time magazine compared There Will Be Blood (2007) to “the greatest achievements” of D.W. Griffith and John Ford.
• Sam Mendes calls him “a true auteur”.
• Over the 7 movies he has directed/wrote; he has directed 7 actors to an Oscar Nomination. This equates to an Oscar Nomination for Acting for every movie he has made.
• (February 17, 2013) Paul and Maya Rudolph are expecting their fourth child.
• Is a big fan of Major League Baseball. His favorite teams are his hometown Los Angeles Dodgers and his late father’s favorite team, the Boston Red Sox.
• Fan and personal friend of Aimee Mann. He used the song “Christmastime” performed by Mann in Hard Eight (1996), and many of her songs in the Magnolia (1999) soundtrack.
• Directed 7 actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, Daniel Day-Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. Day-Lewis won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in There Will Be Blood (2007).
• Attended Emerson College in Boston, Mass.
• Was employed as a standby director for A Prairie Home Companion (2006) for insurance purposes, and in the event that ailing 80-year-old director Robert Altman was unable to finish shooting.
• Cites Martin Scorsese and Jonathan Demme as his biggest influences and considers both to be the greatest American film directors.
• He has three children with his partner Maya Rudolph: daughter Pearl Minnie Anderson (b. October 15, 2005), daughter Lucille Anderson (b. November 6, 2009), and son Jack Anderson (b. July 3, 2011).
• Is a big fan of Adam Sandler and his movies.
• Despite the constant comparison between them amongst fans, he and fellow director Quentin Tarantino are great friends. Furthermore, Tarantino has praised Anderson’s work, calling him a “filmmaking artist.”.
• Tom Cruise got him on to the set of Eyes Wide Shut (1999). He spent the day there and got to talk to Stanley Kubrick.
• For the brief time he was at NYU film school, he handed in some of Pulitzer Prize-winner David Mamet’s work as his own. When he got it back with a “C” grade he decided to leave.
• His favorite all-time film is Network (1976).
• He shaves his head before SOME productions. He did not shave his head before the production of Magnolia (1999), as evidenced in the documentary on the DVD.
• Dropped out of NYU’s film program after two days. Subsequently got his tuition payment back and used the money to make Cigarettes & Coffee (1993).
• Lived in Los Angeles, USA with girlfriend Fiona Apple. He directed Apple in the video for her cover of “Across the Universe”, which was part of the soundtrack for the movie, Pleasantville (1998).
• Son of Ernie Anderson.
• Father, Ernie Anderson, was a local celebrity in Cleveland, where he hosted horror shows using the name “Ghoulardi”.

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