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
crazy play actors
Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.
brother father rocks
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.
jobs thinking too-much
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.
way-to-live world firsts
If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.
lying lasts film
But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.
school want information
Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
pride each-day world
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.
actors de-niro wells
Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.
risk sometimes minutes
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.
school kids thinking
I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!
book school bad-day
My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the 'Bad Day at Black Rock' laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
writing who-i-am people
My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.
character thinking two
I guess what I like in my movies is where you see a character change by maybe two degrees as opposed to the traditional movie change of ninety degrees. I guess that always feels false to me in movies because that doesn't truly happen. Around me, at least in the life I live, I guess I don't see people change ninety or a hundred degrees. I see them change in very small increments. I think it's just a monitor I might have on myself as a writer to not make any false scenes.
rebel
I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.