“I write from my stomach.” — Paul Thomas Anderson Quote

I write from my stomach.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

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.

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

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.

The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.

They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.

I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!'

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

I don't have the stomach for that stuff. I don't have it in me to make people uncomfortable.