“For better or worse”: the movie Paul Thomas Anderson named as “the best I’ll ever make”It’s a tall task for anyone to size up Paul Thomas Anderson’s towering filmography and pick out his finest hour. Before long, Anderson would stand as one of the leading forces of 21st-century Hollywood, writing and directing the acclaimed There Will Be Blood and The Master. “And maybe I’ll make some clunkers, maybe I’ll make some winners, but I guess the way that I really feel is that Magnolia is, for better or worse, the best movie I’ll ever make.” But Magnolia best distils everything about the Anderson formula, casting a vast web of intermingling lost souls trying to find happiness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley. The seeds of Magnolia came to Anderson during Boogie Nights’ extensive editing period.