Quotes by Paul Thomas Anderson

About Paul Thomas Anderson:

Paul Thomas Anderson is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Interested in film-making at a young age, Anderson was encouraged by his father Ernie Anderson (a disc jockey, and television and radio announcer/voiceover artist) to become a filmmaker. Anderson is a distinctive filmmaker of his generation, initially being praised as a wunderkind after the release of the dramas Boogie Nights and Magnolia.
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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

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

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

I write from my stomach.

Paul Thomas Anderson

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

Paul Thomas Anderson

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

Paul Thomas Anderson

Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.

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

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 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 never forgot him.

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 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

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

Paul Thomas Anderson

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

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 than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

Paul Thomas Anderson

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

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

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.

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Author Bio

  • NamePaul Thomas Anderson
  • DescriptionAmerican film director, screenwriter, and producer
  • BornJune 26, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer