"The biggest challenge is getting good material and to have more good days than bad days. It’s a miracle these things get made - it doesn’t get easier. Each film has its own sets of challenges."
Paul Thomas Anderson
Discussing his The Master hisfirst feature since 2007’s There Will Be Blood.
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"I’m a film geek; I was raised on movies. And there come these times in life where you just get to a spot when you feel like movies are betraying you. Where you’re right in the middle of true, painful life. Like, say, somebody could be sitting in a room somewhere, watching their father die of cancer, and all of a sudden it’s like, no this isn’t really happening, this is something I saw in Terms of Endearment. You’re at this moment where movies are betraying you, and you resent movies for maybe taking away from the painful truth of what’s happening to you."
Paul Thomas Anderson. From “Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Magnolia: The Shooting Script. New York: Newmarket Press, 2000. 205. (via
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