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Paul Thomas Anderson

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

— Paul Thomas Anderson world

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

— Paul Thomas Anderson criticism

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

— Paul Thomas Anderson writing

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

— Paul Thomas Anderson truth

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 time

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson time

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson sin

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson desire

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.

— Paul Thomas Anderson you

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

— Paul Thomas Anderson time

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 hope

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!

— Paul Thomas Anderson thinking

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

— Paul Thomas Anderson time

I write from my stomach.

— Paul Thomas Anderson write

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson reason

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson life

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson war

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 weird

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson time

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson you

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson school

I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape 'Blood', to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it.

— Paul Thomas Anderson joy

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson think

I don't want to be the angry guy.

— Paul Thomas Anderson want

I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.

— Paul Thomas Anderson writing

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