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Joaquin Phoenix would "do virtually anything" for 'Inherent Vice' director Paul Thomas Anderson.
The 40-year-old star, who worked with the director on the 2012 film 'The Master', has reunited with him for 'Inherent Vice' and has hailed his film-making abilities.
He told The Huffington Post: "I really enjoyed working with him on 'The Master' and I was flattered and pleased that he'd have me back. I mean, I think I would do virtually anything that Paul wanted me to do. It's such a unique experience working with him. I definitely enjoyed it."
Joaquin's view has been echoed by his 'Inherent Vice' co-star Joanna Newsom, who's hailed the director as an innovative film-maker.
She reflected: "I think every one of his films stands apart from every other one of his films. I think he's an incredible ... you know, I think it's an overused term, but I think he shifts paradigms with each film."
Joanna said the director's films are the upshot of original thinking.
The 33-year-old star explained: "It's built from the ground up, it's done with different natural laws and different assumptions. The air smells different and the colours look different. He creates universes."

Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen and Kate Winslet have been cast in the new Steve Jobs biopic.
Universal Pictures has confirmed Fassbender will take on the lead role in the Danny Boyle-directed movie, while Rogen will play Jobs's earlier collaborator at Apple Steve Wozniak, with Winslet playing Macintosh marketing expert Joanna Hoffman.
In a statement previewing the movie, Universal Pictures said: "Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, the film takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicentre."
Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin is writing the new film - which also features Jeff Daniels as ex-Apple CEO John Sculley - based on Walter Isaacson's biography on Jobs.
Production of the film - which follows the 2013 biopic 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher - is already underway in San Francisco, but the studio has still to confirm a specific release date.
A number of Hollywood heavyweights were linked to the role of Jobs before it was handed to Fassbender, including Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale.
The movie was originally due to be released by Sony, but was dropped by the studio in November.

Dan Aykroyd is "delighted" the 'Ghostbusters' reboot will feature the "most magnificent women in comedy".
Earlier this week, it was revealed Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon will take the lead roles in the new movie and Aykroyd, who appeared in the 'Ghostbusters' movies in the 1980s, is thrilled with the composition of the female-led cast.
He told The Hollywood Reporter: "The Aykroyd family is delighted by this inheritance of the Ghostbusters torch by these most magnificent women in comedy.
"My great grandfather, Dr Sam Aykroyd, the original Ghostbusters, was a man who empowered women in his day and this is a beautiful development in the legacy of our family business."
The female-led cast has also been endorsed by Bill Murray, who also starred in the original movies.
He recommended recommended Wiig and McCarthy to take over the iconic franchise.
Asked what he thinks about the prospect of an all-female cast and who he'd like to star in the film, Murray said: "I'm fine with it. I would go to that movie, and they'd probably have better outfits, too.
"Melissa [McCarthy] would be a spectacular Ghostbuster. And Kristen Wiig is so funny - God, she's funny!"

Brad Pitt is in negotiations to star in Angelina Jolie's next movie.
The 51-year-old actor has recently completed work on 'By the Sea', his 39-year-old wife's third directorial effort, and is now looking to land a part in her fourth film 'Africa', The Wrap reports.
'Africa' is a true story about paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his battle with the ivory poachers who threatened the African elephant population in the 1980s and Angelina - who raises six children with Brad - is working from a script written by Eric Roth.
The brunette beauty has previously said: "I've felt a deep connection to Africa and its culture for much of my life, and was taken with Eric's beautiful script about a man drawn into the violent conflict with elephant poachers who emerged with a deeper understanding of man's footprint and a profound sense of responsibility for the world around him."
Angelina - who met Brad on the set of their 2005 movie 'Mr and Mrs Smith' - previously said working with her spouse on 'By the Sea' brought them "closer".
She added: "Sharing something in a deep artistic way, it's something I think is necessary for artistic couples. I hadn't realised how good it would be for us."

Jessica Chastain has seen the trailer of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' 12 times.
The 37-year-old actress, who starred in 'Interstellar' in 2014, has revealed she can't wait to see the much-anticipated movie and is disappointed that her 'A Most Violent Year' co-star Oscar Isaac - who also stars in the sci-fi film - hasn't secured her tickets to an advanced screening.
Asked how many times she'd seen the trailer, Jessica told Collider: "I love it - I probably watched it ... 12 times, maybe.
"It's like, 'Wow, what, what just happened!?' So, I've seen it a lot and I've been waiting for my invitation to go to an advanced screening."
Jessica joked her co-star has changed since being cast in the eagerly-awaited blockbuster, which is set for release on December 18 2015.
She quipped: "I used to get invited when Oscar was in a movie, we would go to our friend Scott Burns' house and go to the living room and watch on a DVD his movie before it came out. So, I'm waiting for him to extend the invitation, it's a bit rude that it's taking this long."

Colin Firth is to play amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst in a new biopic.
The Oscar-winning star will play the central character in the new movie, which tells the story of Crowhurst's efforts to win the first World Yacht Race in 1968.
The project - which is being led by 'The Theory of Everything' director James Marsh - will begin shooting in the spring and is being produced by Pete Czernin, Graham Broadbent and Scott Z Burns, with Burns penning the script, Deadline reports.
Crowhurst - whose life has already been the subject of numerous documentaries and films - died in 1969 while competing in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a single-handed, round-the-world yacht race.
He entered the competition in the hope of securing a cash prize to fund his failing business, but secretly abandoned the race while reporting false positions, thereby completing a circumnavigation without actually circling the world.
Crowhurst's logs suggest he suffered a mental breakdown during the race and took his own life by jumping overboard.
Meanwhile, Firth - who stars in 'Kingsman: The Secret Service' - recently revealed he photographed every bruise he got while making the action film because he was "so proud" of them.
The 54-year-old actor said: "We had loads [of injuries]. But I'm so proud of them - they're trophies!
"Because there was always this doubt that anybody was going to believe that I was doing it if anyone got a bruise, or certainly if I got a bruise, it was photographed.
"It wasn't, 'Get the nurse,' it was, 'Get the camera.' Show the bruise or the broken tooth."

Ava DuVernay thinks 'Selma' reinforces the idea that "you're never too small to make a difference".
The Oscar-nominated film starring David Oyelowo and Oprah Winfrey tells the story of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches - a landmark of the American Civil Rights Movement - and the director thinks the film carries an important message.
Speaking at the UK premiere in London, the film-maker told BANG Showbiz: "The Selma marches are just extraordinary. It was just a small, sleepy southern town, which no-one was paying attention to.
"They bounded together, they raised their voices, they amplified and they changed the world. This film is about that - you're never too small to make a difference. Hopefully, people check it out and feel the same."
Ava, 42, also revealed she was determined to have women involved with the film.
She shared: "As a woman director, working on the script and the film, it was essential to me that we had women involved. We added about five women characters and amplified the voices of the women who were there. It's imperative. You can't tell stories without women. It's not the truth, so we tried to tell the truth as we saw it."
Following the premiere, 'Selma' stars David Oyelowo and Colman Domingo, and director Ava DuVernay, attended the exclusive VIP post-premiere event hosted at the luxurious One Mayfair in central London by beer brand Stella Artois as part of its Stella Artois Bursaries programme, which supports the release of standout independent films.
The guests enjoyed a breathtaking performance by the London Community Gospel Choir; whose rendition of the Golden Globe winning song Glory from the film's Oscar nominated soundtrack received raucous applause.

Chris Pratt is wanted to star in a new 'Indiana Jones' movie.
The 35-year-old star is being lined up by Disney - which bought the rights to the popular franchise from Paramount in 2013 - to appear in the role of the archaeologist, who was previously played by Harrison Ford.
Although plans for the film are at an early stage, Deadline claims Pratt is seen by the studio as an ideal candidate for the part, having impressed as a leading man in Marvel's 'Guardians of the Galaxy', which was released last year.
Meanwhile, Pratt and fellow Hollywood star Chris Evans - who stars as Captain America in the Marvel films - recently revealed they have a wager placed on the outcome of the Super Bowl between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots on February 1.
The pair engaged in a friendly war of words on Twitter and have agreed to visit a children's hospital in costume if their team loses.
Pratt, a Seahawks fan who plays Star-Lord in 'Guardians of the Galaxy', tweeted: "OK. Seahawks win you fly yourself to Seattle, visit @seattlechildren hospital as Captain America, waving the 12th man flag."
Evans, a Patriots fan, accepted the challenge, insisting his team would win the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
He said: "I accept. And when the Patriots humiliate your seachickens, I expect Star-Lord to arrive at @chris_haven in a Brady jersey."

David Oyelowo has fulfilled a "lifelong" dream starring as Martin Luther King in 'Selma'.
The 38-year-old actor, who appears as the iconic leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, expressed surprise that the Ava DuVernay-directed film is the first Hollywood release that puts the American - who was killed in 1968 - at the centre.
Speaking at the UK premiere of the new movie in London, Oyelowo told BANG Showbiz: "I have a lot of lifelong dreams. This was one of them, getting to play Mr King. It's ridiculous he's been dead nearly 50 years now and this is the first film centered around him. I'm just very glad it was me."
Oyelowo also explained the role came with a certain level of responsibility, acknowledging he couldn't afford to make a "mess" of it.
He shared: "It's different playing a fictional person, of course. I mean, the level of preparation you have to have, especially when you're playing someone as well known, as revered as him, you can't afford to mess that up. So yeah, that's all part of it.
"But for me, getting to playing Dr King was just a huge honour, because I do think he was an extraordinary person. But he was just a person. A lot of the time people talk of him as an icon, as an historical figure ... he didn't think of himself that way and our job was to show you the human being."
Following the premiere, 'Selma' stars David Oyelowo and Colman Domingo, and director Ava DuVernay, attended the exclusive VIP post-premiere event hosted at the luxurious One Mayfair in central London by beer brand Stella Artois as part of its Stella Artois Bursaries programme, which supports the release of standout independent films.
The guests enjoyed a breathtaking performance by the London Community Gospel Choir; whose rendition of the Golden Globe winning song Glory from the film's Oscar nominated soundtrack received raucous applause.