85 Quotes by Paul Thomas Anderson

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

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

Of course, I’m no dummy.

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.

I don’t want to be the angry guy.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you’d be the first person in the history of the world.

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

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.

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