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 Copy Share Image
I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood. — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it. — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote. — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much. — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share
I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will. — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share
