Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald’s, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house. – Paul Thomas Anderson
No matter how many times you do it, you don’t get used to the sadness – for me at least – of coming to the end of a film. – Paul Thomas Anderson
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff. – Paul Thomas Anderson
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called ‘Rule Of The Bone.’ I didn’t do a very good job. I didn’t really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. – Paul Thomas Anderson
I don’t get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing – that around the world everybody’s after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day. – Paul Thomas Anderson
How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically. – Paul Thomas Anderson
I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape ‘Blood’, to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it. – Paul Thomas Anderson
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. – Paul Thomas Anderson
Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging. – Paul Thomas Anderson
I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I’ll make pretty good movies the rest of my life. – Paul Thomas Anderson
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. – Paul Thomas Anderson
I didn’t have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote. – Paul Thomas Anderson
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. – Paul Thomas Anderson
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. – Paul Thomas Anderson
But I’d be lying if I didn’t say that every time you go to make a film, you’re desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself. – Paul Thomas Anderson
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out. – Paul Thomas Anderson
I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can’t really do that fast. – Paul Thomas Anderson
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father’s first marriage who were rock ‘n’ roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture. – Paul Thomas Anderson
Well I’d really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he’s still the most talented actor out there. – Paul Thomas Anderson