Quotes By Paul Thomas Anderson

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

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!

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

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.

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

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.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

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.

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.