85 Quotes by Paul Thomas Anderson

I don't want to be the angry guy.

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.

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.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

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

We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?

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

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

It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going to end up doing something that he's probably already done before. It always seem like we're falling behind whatever he came up with. 'Singin' in the Rain'' in Clockwork Orange - that was the first time I became so aware of music in movies. So no matter how hard you try to do something new, you're always following behind.