Top 43 Quotes by Paul Thomas Anderson

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

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

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

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

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

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.

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.

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

Of course, I'm no dummy.

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