"I enrolled in NYU film school and went there for literally two days. I walked into this class and the teacher said, ‘If anyone is here to write Terminator 2, walk out the door.’ And I thought, well, that is not a good way to start. What if I want to write Terminator 2? What if someone sitting next to me wants to write it? But he was instantly saying, ‘We write serious films here.’ But Terminator 2 is a pretty awesome movie."
"I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember all I wanted to do was make movies."
— Paul Thomas Anderson
— Paul Thomas Anderson
- Paul Thomas Anderson on film school (via marlonbrandos)
BREAKING: there will be a long dolly shot in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice.
470 feet long, to be exact.
A young Paul Thomas Anderson discussing audience reactions, presumably to Cigarettes & Coffee, at the 1994 São Paulo International Short Film Festival.
"My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges’ audio track on the ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’ laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it."
