Quotes By Paul Thomas Anderson
I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.
Paul Thomas Anderson
No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
Paul Thomas Anderson
You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.
Paul Thomas Anderson
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
Paul Thomas Anderson
I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.
Paul Thomas Anderson
I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.
Paul Thomas Anderson
I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!
Paul Thomas Anderson
Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
Paul Thomas Anderson
I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.
Paul Thomas Anderson
My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.
Paul Thomas Anderson
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.
Paul Thomas Anderson
I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
Paul Thomas Anderson
I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.
Paul Thomas Anderson
There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
Paul Thomas Anderson
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.
Paul Thomas Anderson
I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.
Paul Thomas Anderson
I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.
Paul Thomas Anderson