Paul Thomas Anderson

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

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.

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.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.