I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it to myself. It's a bit bizarre.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

It's weird. I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

I didn’t find it difficult to live in the “Inherent Vice” world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

The world's history is the world's judgment.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

Within us lies the peace, the beauty, the glory of our being. There is an ocean of all that. We cannot seek it outside, we have to go within.

And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.

Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.

Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it" George Cooper