Paul Thomas Anderson
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"Paul Thomas Anderson" 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 voice acting/announcer/voiceover artist) to become a filmmaker. Anderson is a distinctive filmmaker of his generation, initially being praised as a wunderkind after the release of the dramas Boogie Nights and Magnolia (film)/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, a neo-noir crime thriller entitled Hard Eight (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 (film)/Magnolia (1999), received wide acclaim despite struggling at the box office.

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It's a gift, I guess, is the best way to say it. He's put up with my presence, and I just like being around him.

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I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

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I think my movie is a hopeful one.

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I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

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No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.

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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.

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I'm loving this kind of critical polarity. It's the first time it's happened to me and I'm actually getting off on it a little bit.

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I've been in other relationships since Paul. He's been a big part of my life, and he's a very good friend now. But the songs are informed by all my relationships. There are certain lines that are directly about one person or situation, so directly that I'm sure those people recognize it. And that may be why I do this, to get my point across — though not in a mean way.

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I try and balance it out. I mean, I don't want to be blabbermouth-young-white-director-guy, but I gotta help. You just don't want to get a disgusting sheen on yourself.

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