Paul Thomas Anderson

Anderson, Paul Thomas Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Inherent Vice

  2014, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Inherent Vice

  2014, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Inherent Vice

  2014, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Master

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Master

  2012, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Master

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen In Search of Ted Demme

  2010, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Desperadoes

  2009, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Ceremonia de clausura - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 80th Annual Academy Awards

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee: Best Adapted Screenplay, Director & Picture
• Play in Full Screen 2008 Britannia Awards

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen There Will Be Blood

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen There Will Be Blood

  2007, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen There Will Be Blood

  2007, role: director
• Play in Full Screen A Prairie Home Companion

  2006, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen In Search of Ted Demme

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Mattress Man Commercial

  2003, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Blossoms & Blood

  2003, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Couch

  2003, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Blossoms & Blood

  2003, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Mattress Man Commercial

  2003, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Punch-Drunk Love

  2002, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Minority Report

  2002, role: actor , character name: Passenger on Train
• Play in Full Screen Punch-Drunk Love

  2002, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Punch-Drunk Love

  2002, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Saturday Night Live: The Best of Molly Shannon

  2001, role: director
• Play in Full Screen SNL Fanatic

  2000, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen SNL Fanatic

  2000, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The 72nd Annual Academy Awards

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee: Best Original Screenplay
• Play in Full Screen That Moment: Magnolia Diary

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Magnolia

  1999, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Magnolia

  1999, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Magnolia

  1999, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Flagpole Special

  1998, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Flagpole Special

  1998, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Boogie Nights

  1997, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Boogie Nights

  1997, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Boogie Nights

  1997, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Sydney

  1996, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Sydney

  1996, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Cigarettes & Coffee

  1993, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Sworn to Vengeance

  1993, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Cigarettes & Coffee

  1993, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Quiz Kids Challenge

  1990, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen The Dirk Diggler Story

  1988, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Dirk Diggler Story

  1988, role: writer

Famous quotes by Paul Thomas Anderson:

"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."

"I think my movie is a hopeful one,"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"A good actor is like watching a great musician, but having a bad actor terrifies me, because it means I've got to find something to say or something to do. And that's really frustrating, because you want to be concentrating on everything, and instead you find yourself bogged down with helping someone know their lines or not bump into the furniture, and that's when you want to strangle them."

"Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it."

"I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!"

"I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life."

"How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically."

"I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling."

"You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage."

"I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape 'Blood', to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it."

"I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now."

"I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning."

"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."