Paul Thomas Anderson

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

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.

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 have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.