All Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes
- Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging. Acting
- How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically. All
- Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. Complete
- No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the… Coming
- I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote. Ago
- As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films. Father
- We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done? All
- My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and… Accompanied
- I guess what I like in my movies is where you see a character change by maybe two degrees as opposed to the traditional movie… Always Feels
- 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
- Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out. Bit
- 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 going… Already Done
- It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of… Adapt
- I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will. All
- The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff. Fashioned
- There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point. From
- 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… Beginning
- I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast. Always Looking
- Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor. Actor
- My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him… All