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Quotes by Paul Thomas Anderson
- 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.
- I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.
- I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.
- I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
- 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.
- It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.
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