"My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him."
― Paul Thomas Anderson
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- "I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film’s abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y’know, that’s great. But I hope it involves an audience."
- "My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father’s first marriage who were rock ‘n’ roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture."
- "I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I’ll make pretty good movies the rest of my life."
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- "David and Dad didn’t get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn’t going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they’re like best friends."― Amy Sedaris
- "But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity."― Sidney Poitier
- "I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver."― Jennifer Ellison