Famous Quotes

"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 on Dad

More quotes about Dad

• "It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."

  Pope John XXIII on Dad

• "When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Dad

• "My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."

  Eminem on Dad

• "I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much."

  Hedy Lamarr on Dad

• "Whoever does not have a good father should procure one."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Dad

More quotes by 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."

• "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."

• "I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience."

• "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."

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