Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

I generally won't do a role unless I feel like it's in my system somewhere, even if it's just a molecule of it. Like I just felt like I knew it and if I talked about it or discussed it or tried to rehearse it that it would take away the energy from that scene so I went in there and just did it.

I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of pasting on an idea.

Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.

Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.

I always say that when it comes to picking a single, firstly you have to go with what feels right and what your gut tells you.

The body never lies.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.

I live on my gut instinct.

I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

I just follow my heart.

I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.

I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

That's a big thing in my life: going with your gut. If something isn't lighting the fire and making you excited, or if something feels wrong or doesn't agree with you, it should be questioned. It should be talked about.

Stick to your heart.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

I always follow my heart.

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.