Key Genres: Drama,
Ensemble Film, Comedy Drama,
Period Film
Key
Collaborators:
Robert Elswit (Cinematographer), Joanne Sellar (Producer), Philip
Seymour Hoffman (Leading Character Player), Philip Baker Hall (Leading
Character Player), Luis Guzman (Leading Character Player), Dylan Tichenor
(Editor), Jon Brion (Composer), John C. Reilly (Character Player),
Julianne Moore (Leading Player), William Arnold (Production Designer)
Highly Recommended: Hard
Eight (1996), Magnolia (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Recommended: Boogie
Nights (1997), There Will Be Blood (2007)
"Paul
Thomas Anderson emerged as one of the most exciting young
directors in Hollywood, with two epics as vast and
sprawling as the San Fernando Valley in which they are set
- Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia
(1999). His films already show the hallmarks of a
distinctive vision and are marked by a surprising
maturity, delving deep into themes of family, loneliness
and the ghosts of the past." - Andrew
Syder (Contemporary North American Film Directors, 2002)
"No
other American director working today has such sad,
tender, and smart ways of looking into the depths of
society, or for feeling out their poignant juxtapositions.
He writes great, ragged speeches, and he is like a fond
parent with his family of actors." - David
Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)
"Perhaps
the most ambitious American filmmaker of his generation,
Paul Thomas Anderson grew up around movies and worked as a
production assistant from a young age...Influenced above all
by
Robert Altman, Anderson has two wildly ambitious,
panoramic ensemble movies to his name (Boogie Nights,
Magnolia)." -
Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006)
"I
have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make
pretty good movies the rest of my life. And maybe I'll
make some clunkers, maybe I'll make some winners, but I
guess the way that I really feel is that Magnolia
is, for better or worse, the best movie I'll ever
make." - Paul
Thomas Anderson (IMDB Biography)
"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."
- Paul Thomas Anderson
