Screenwriting 101: Paul Thomas Anderson

“If emotional logic is betrayed, then you’ve got a problem. Not that none of it’s plausible — it seems to be vaguely plausible. It’s not ridiculously implausible. There’s a fine line between ‘No fucking way’ and ‘Ah, yeah, I could see that.’ If you start messing with the plausibility of somebody’s emotions, that feels against the rules.”

— Paul Thomas Anderson

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