Paul Thomas Anderson

Well, the only people that don't need to be there are like studio executives and producers.

And, you know, what I learned probably from my dad, it was like, whoever's, whoever's, you know, kick all the people out of the room that are not completely, completely essential to the project.

You know, you learn pretty quickly who isn't, you know, they scatter.

That's a really good question because I think you're right that the story of, you know, the filmmaker with the 8mm camera and then onto the video camera, it's like there's a million of them and that's generally how everybody starts.

But the writing part always excited me because I liked it.

I think I got lucky that I liked it.

I liked putting paper into a typewriter and typing out ideas and I...

I liked seeing it on the page.

I liked looking at that idea.

I don't know, from an early age, I've always liked writing and formulating things on paper.

And when you learn on a typewriter,

You learn how to make it right the first time because the last thing that you want to do is go through that.

And I had the one script.

Do you still use a typewriter?

No, I don't.

From time to time, I will just for fun to mix it up.

But no, I don't use a typewriter anymore.

But I remember the one script that I had.

I think I have to credit my mother for this.

I had the script for Holy Grail.