P.T Anderson is a cool motherfucker
Paul Thomas Anderson, the writer/director behind 'Boogie Nights', 'Magnolia' and 'Punch Drunk Love' is cool as fuck. I have no idea why I ever thought he was a dick, I think my brain drew the conclusion without me, for the soul reason the picture on his imdb page makes him look like he's been smoking the pipe.
Then I watched this little interview with him (conducted by the one and only Henry Rollins no less) and I realise how wrong I was. In the interview he talks about the influences on his new film 'There Will be Blood' based on a book by Upton Sinclair, about the fact he took some time off to be with his new born baby and he basically just comes across as friendly, genuine and… well…real.
'There Will be Blood' is currently filming and will provide an interesting change of pace for PTA's films, The movie is set in the goldrush of 1930's America and stars Daniel Day Lewis in the lead. Here's a little synopsis:
A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century Texas prospector (Daniel Day-Lewis) in the early days of the business.
I was also trawling the web for any info on his new film and found a really great site called 'cigarettes and red wine' that has a "report from the frontline" on the set
There's a script review over at latinoreview that is nothing short of glowing, here
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August 3rd, 2006 at 2:28 am
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March 16th, 2007 at 8:13 am
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