Making It: Ruth De Jong’s Designs on Paul Thomas Anderson & Terrence Malick

Ruth De Jong never thought she would end up working on movies. She wanted to be a painter.

But now, a decade into her career as a production designer and art director, she’s tallied up credits on films like The Tree of Life, To the Wonder and Knight of Cups from director Terrence Malick, and There Will Be Blood, The Master and Inherent Vice with Paul Thomas Anderson.