Paul Thomas
Paul Thomas
Paul Anthony Thomasis an American musician best known as the bassist for the pop punk band Good Charlotte...
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth5 October 1980
father film
As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.
sadness matter film
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.
people film adages
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.
dummy courses
Of course, I'm no dummy.
stealing term screenwriters
There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.
stuff stories film
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
jobs book firsts
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.
baby feels acknowledge
I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.
baby order way
You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.
dad guy avant-garde
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.
dream trying done
I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.
writing knowing guy
You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.
facts freak control-freak
I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.
nuance moments that-moment
I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.