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The Director's Chair => Paul Thomas Anderson => Topic started by: Pozer on August 30, 2003, 07:02:03 PM

Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: Pozer on August 30, 2003, 07:02:03 PM
Cast your favorite quotes from Paul from interviews, Q&A's etc.

you may recognize this one from my old signature. It's from the Cannes interview and I think it's kind of wierd but at the same time sort of cool and funny because of the way he struggles to find the right words.....

"No because...no, no, no because...I want -- no because...I want -- because....no because....I love those movies y'know. I think that I was just...I think that I...I think that I.....I think I love movies that have a lot of good love stories in them, and I love -- and I, y'know. I'm a big fan of falling in love"
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: Ernie on August 30, 2003, 07:09:30 PM
I've been trying to think of one from that Q&A I went to cause he was  just hilarious from beginning to end. Right from the beginning, after a loud eruption of applause, a few standing ovations and even some guys bowing to him, he says something like "Wow, that was a head-fuck of an introduction cause...cause...that's just so not me." You really had to hear him say it and see who he said it in front of. Most of the people there looked pretty young but there were definitely some older people there (it's essentially a revival and film preservation theatre) that must have been shocked.
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: EL__SCORCHO on August 30, 2003, 07:39:41 PM
I liked it when he spoke at nyu with Sandler and the person leading the discussion gave Paul a baseball cap with an nyu logo on it.

He put it on and said, "It's taken me a long time to wear this fucking hat."
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: neatahwanta on August 30, 2003, 08:28:14 PM
"You're working out your psychosis at everyone else's eight fifty.  No one cares."
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: filmcritic on August 30, 2003, 09:21:58 PM
Make sure ya'll don't repeat yourselves. I once did a "Favorite Piece of Anderson Dialouge" thread where people posted their favorite quotes from his movies. It was eventually locked because people said the same things over and over again. Yeah, they're very strict.
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: Ernie on August 30, 2003, 10:06:53 PM
Quote from: neatahwanta"You're working out your psychosis at everyone else's eight fifty.  No one cares."

I need this one in context. It sounds pretty damn mean this way.

Quote from: filmcriticMake sure ya'll don't repeat yourselves. I once did a "Favorite Piece of Anderson Dialouge" thread where people posted their favorite quotes from his movies. It was eventually locked because people said the same things over and over again. Yeah, they're very strict.

I hate to say it cause well, I really have no right to say something like this to anybody but...have some respect for yourself man. You know that the thread made by you that you're talking about in the post I just quoted is a completely different thread then this one...and as you also well know, you're about to get lashed out at yet again by people not as patient as myself if you don't edit your post quick. These are quotes from the man himself, not quotes from his movies. Please help yourself out.
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: Cecil on August 30, 2003, 10:15:40 PM
Quote from: ebeaman
Quote from: neatahwanta"You're working out your psychosis at everyone else's eight fifty.  No one cares."

I need this one in context. It sounds pretty damn mean this way.

pta is right.
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: filmcritic on August 31, 2003, 09:11:49 AM
ebeaman, same principal.
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: Alethia on August 31, 2003, 12:20:06 PM
"Mark Rance, you know, nobody cares about this fucking movie anymore, okay?  There are more important things.  There's life and...love."
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: cine on August 31, 2003, 01:37:39 PM
"I have never been in a war, like John Ford. I am not from France, like François Truffaut. I'm not even from Chicago, like David Mamet. When you are young and impressionable, it is important to have some resemblance to those you admire."

"'The Wedding Singer,' and 'Big Daddy,' and especially 'Happy Gilmore.' Those three, in particular, I could watch them over and over and over again just from the pure joy that you can feel them putting into making the movie which, is just as much joy as you can feel Robert Altman putting into making 'Nashville'."

"I wish people's film vocabularies would go back further than three or four years ago."
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: prophet on August 31, 2003, 05:58:08 PM
"I'd have to say that dealing with a ridiculous Hollywood process called "test screenings" where 500 strangers tell you how to cut your movie."

"He has a 13 inch penis so I guess it's typecasting."
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: AntiDumbFrogQuestion on August 31, 2003, 07:01:11 PM
"I hope that answers your fucking frog question!"
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: Pubrick on September 01, 2003, 06:01:59 AM
these quotes are really great.. so far.
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: aclockworkjj on September 01, 2003, 11:35:47 AM
"I hate pre-production.  I fuckin' hate it.  I will be a calmer, wonderful, gentle, beautiful person come fuckin' Thursday,... come Tuesday.  It's like I am off and away.  Off and anyway, just get me the fuck in the boat, ya know?"
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: Find Your Magali on September 01, 2003, 11:52:54 AM
"I use my brief experience with film school to bad-mouth it with authority. The first day I walked into the classroom I was faced with seeing Battleship Potemkin and a professor who said, "If you want to write Terminator 2, get out." Well, fuck you. Maybe there's some kid who wants to write Terminator 2, and how dare you start with Potemkin? Why not start with Terminator 2 and work backward? To me, that's the way to learn."
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: Gamblour. on September 01, 2003, 12:24:23 PM
That's a great quote. Does anyone know the one where he said something about not liking to read, that's he not a reader but a writer, like Dirk Diggler? I know I read it somewhere, but could never find it again.
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: Spike on September 01, 2003, 02:45:16 PM
Seconds before the beginning of the premiere of "Magnolia":

"Where the fuck is my wallet?"

I'm not quiet sure if he said "wallet", but I think yes.

PTA in front of the Jeremy Blackman and the other two kids during pre-production for "Magnolia":

"How the fuck do I start know?... Okay I'm gonna watch my language from now on."

PTA in an interview for his video journal on "Magnolia":

"I went for a couple of weeks to Bill Macys cabin in Vermont, which is the middle of fucking nowhere."

After PTA asked the crew of "Magnolia" how long the film would be, someone answered "88 Minutes" - PTAs answer:

"88 Minutes... for the prologue!"
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: Vile5 on September 01, 2003, 02:48:24 PM
Quote from: Find Your Magali"I use my brief experience with film school to bad-mouth it with authority. The first day I walked into the classroom I was faced with seeing Battleship Potemkin and a professor who said, "If you want to write Terminator 2, get out." Well, fuck you. Maybe there's some kid who wants to write Terminator 2, and how dare you start with Potemkin? Why not start with Terminator 2 and work backward? To me, that's the way to learn."
yeap, that's one of my favorites too
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: cine on September 01, 2003, 07:59:54 PM
That's one of my favourites but because of the "Maybe somebody wants to write T2"
I don't really agree with watching films of today and going backwards.
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: Sally O'Malley on September 01, 2003, 08:22:53 PM
so, at olive garden, u'd rather have the neverending salad and bread sticks after u eat your frozen tiramisu and fettuccine alfredo?

dawg, whatchyootalkin?


ps.
....that post just made me really hungry.
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: cine on September 01, 2003, 08:28:37 PM
... I'm talking about in terms of teaching cinema history. Start where it all began and go forwards.
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: Alethia on September 02, 2003, 10:04:38 PM
Quote from: SpikeSeconds before the beginning of the premiere of "Magnolia":

"Where the fuck is my wallet?"

I'm not quiet sure if he said "wallet", but I think yes.

[[/i]

i thought he said "where's my fuckin water?'......
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: prophet on September 03, 2003, 10:40:11 PM
what did PTA say on the BN's DVD "this fucking kid's read only 30 pages of the script" or something talking about marky mark
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: Link on September 04, 2003, 09:16:58 AM
I like when he's talking about film school and the Terminator 2 thing, where he says "Terminator 2 was dynamite!"  Gets me every time.
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: kotte on September 04, 2003, 10:37:06 AM
Quote from: CinephileI don't really agree with watching films of today and going backwards.

Why?

As PTA said, it's crazy to start with Potemkin. Filmschool shouldn't put people off the first day. That's right, I think Potemkin is really really off-putting. At least 'till a year ago or something

Ask anyone interested in films what made them interested in it in the first place. Do you think they first saw potemkin and thought 'Wow...I wanna see more films, contemporary films'? I think this couldn't be more untrue. Let me tell you how I feel and I think most people do: We see films in theatres and get excited. Maybe we wanna se older films from that director and maybe even older ones from directors who inspired them? Etc etc...
Title: PTA Quotes
Post by: jasper_window on September 04, 2003, 10:40:12 AM
Quote from: eward
Quote from: SpikeSeconds before the beginning of the premiere of "Magnolia":

"Where the fuck is my wallet?"

I'm not quiet sure if he said "wallet", but I think yes.

[[/i]

i thought he said "where's my fuckin water?'......

I think so too.

I like when he told Philip Baker Hall that he "walks like a motherfucker" on the Hard Eight commentary.