Father time Quotes by Paul Thomas Anderson

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe…

— 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…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

— 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…

— 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'…

— 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…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson