This Valley kid wants us all to believe in the power and magic of movies.
Every Paul Thomas Anderson interview during his Licorice Pizza press tour feels like a wide array of movie recommendations, state-of-Hollywood discussions, and advice for writers and directors.
His new profile in The New Yorker gets more personal, pulling at the 51-year-old director’s habits and mechanisms he uses to write, along with discussing his love for the valley of Los Angeles, the setting of many of his films from Boogie Nights to Magnolia, to now, with the aforementioned Licorice Pizza.
As Anderson says, “The Valley is not the prettiest place in the world, it’s not the most cultured place in the world, I understand that, but it’s home.”
We checked the whole profile out and decided to pull some other quotes we think would be relevant to you as writers and directors.
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
