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Paul is an incredibly nice person who is very responsive to what the actors say.

Lena Endre

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“It’s New Year’s Eve. We need to go dancing.”

Phantom Thread (2017) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

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John Krasinski

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When I was a boy, I started to hide things in the lining of the garments. Things only I knew were there. Secrets. Phantom Thread (2017) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

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Sometimes I jump ahead in our life together, and I see a time near the end. I can predict the future, and everything has settled. All our lovers and children and friends come back and are welcome, and we have large gatherings where everyone is laughing and playing games. I am older, and I see things differently, and I finally understand you. And I take care of your dresses, keeping them from dust and ghosts and time.

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Jonny’s just so far ahead – he understands orchestration works, he can read music, he’s studied it all. I mean, he sits there studying scores. For Paul Thomas Anderson’s last film, he went away and read all the scores from the period of the composers of the time. That is not gonna happen with me cos I can’t read music.

Thom Yorke

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I’m obsessed with Paul Thomas Anderson.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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Paul Thomas Anderson eating pizza.

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I’ll never forget the day I saw There Will Be Blood, and I couldn’t get my mind around the idea that someone went from Punch Drunk Love to that movie. It was the same brain—the same person who said, “I can switch from this to this.” So I have never been the same since that movie, because I saw in Paul Thomas Anderson the potential of exactly what you’re talking about, which is basically somebody saying, “There is no path. I just do.” That was a huge lesson. Of course, Paul is so consistently a disruptor just by doing his own thing.

John Krasinski

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Critics loved its high concept thrills of A Quiet Place, too, and while many have offered their praise, a certain phone call stands out for Krasinski – the one he got from his favorite director, and friend, Paul Thomas Anderson.

“It was probably 30 minutes long about how much he loved the movie and how much it meant to him and how much he wished movies like this happened every Friday. I genuinely blacked out on that phone call,” Krasinski said. “He said, ‘I’ll tell you the best compliment I can give you: As I was walking back to my car I thought, OK, I need to get back to work.”’

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Sydney was a learning moment. I will not let this happen again, I decided. How? By being arrogant. I can do that because I am pretty good. Maybe not brilliant, but pretty good. And I do what I say. There is so much bullshit sold, lied and shot in Hollywood. There is so much money wasted. Eighty million dollars for a movie is quite normal; I would not know what to do about it. With me everything is well spent, I do not care about stupid nonsense. That's why I can make what I want.

Paul Thomas Anderson

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I love all the work of Paul Thomas Anderson, especially Phantom Thread.

Julia Davis

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Paul, I think, has a lot of love. I think he loves his actors and his crew. He has an incredible eye for detail. I think it's definitely been important for me having - wanting to have been a filmmaker for a long time to have seen directors like this go to work, meaning to see them wait for the oil drip to be right even though time and money is, you know, burning. I remember one time in a costume fitting, you know, him noticing something in the stitching of the tie that nobody else would have noticed. You know, just sort of the focus, the care and the integrity. And it's also important when you see somebody like him able to enjoy their work and have a moment of fun probably too. But I absolutely loved working with him.

Paul Dano

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Phantom Thread (2017), d. Paul Thomas Anderson

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Vicky Krieps in Phantom Thread (2017) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

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Gina McKee enjoys a food metaphor. We’ve been talking about her performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s sublime Phantom Thread, alongside Daniel Day-Lewis in his final acting role. The experience was “bittersweet”, she says. It was a small part and she was hungry for more. It was like “having a starter from the most fantastic chef. You’re desperate to have the main course.”  

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Most of the time, my TV is turned to TCM. And I just watch whatever's on that. But [if my partner is holding the remote], I let it go. It's not worth the stress. There's way more enthusiasm on his part, so it's like, "Go for it. Live your life. Enjoy." But I do notice, when we are watching something that's going on for way too long, I look over and he's just dead asleep. That's most of the time. I'm usually the one searching for the remote in the bed to turn off the TV

Maya Rudolph