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Title: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: edison on January 18, 2008, 08:47:02 PM
I tried to see if there might have been a topic on this already but I thought maybe it would be cool to compile quotes from others in the business who mention PTA. I thought of this because I just came across a quote from Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose) who said:

"Hollywood is an area where many things about the cinema are going on - but it is not cinema. When I think about American cinema, I think of Scorsese, Coppola, Paul Thomas Anderson. Hollywood is just a name on a hill.'
- from an article in the Daily Mail UK
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: modage on February 16, 2008, 01:50:53 PM
here are a handful i've compiled over the last year or two.

Rian Johnson (writer/director of Brick) in CHUD interview...

Q: Who are the current working directors that you consider the best? The ones you look up to.
Johnson: I'm a huge fan of a couple. Wes Anderson, I love him. Paul Thomas Anderson, I'm really excited about the new one that he's working on.

Q: There was just a script review for that.
Johnson: I read it. The guy was ecstatic but he didn't give much information.

Q: The guy was psyched, but he didn't know it was based on a book already.
Johnson: I know! He suggested they novelize it! [laughs] That's a little curious. Although that reminds me of one of the funniest things I've seen in a bookstore, which was the novelization of the Gwyneth version of Great Expectations. It was a novelization of that movie.


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Eli Roth gives a thanks to all the supportive fimmakers he met after Cabin Fever, and included was PT Anderson, saying that he was "encouraging."

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In the book The Mind Of The Modern Moviemaker: 20 Conversations with the New Generation of Filmmakers, that features interviews with directors like Michel Gondry & Brett Ratner PT is mentioned a few times.

When asked "Who is the most impressive filmmaker working today?" both Todd Phillips (Old School) and Joe Carnahan (Narc) named Paul Thomas Anderson. 

Todd Phillips said "I always said to Ben, "This is going to be a romantic comedy between two straight guys."  It follows the beats of a regular romantic comedy because they're thrown together, there's tension, and they're thrown apart and then they come back together stronger than ever.  A typical romantic comedy to me is like R&B music.  It's just not my thing, but to take two guys and virtually make a romantic comedy with all those beats just seems interesting to me.  I find romantic comedies are rarely romantic and funny, which is why what P.T. Anderson did with Punch Drunk [Love] is like the greatest romantic comedy of all time- because it's actually funny and romantic.  When Todd Philips was asked about the similarities between Fight Club and Old School, he names it as his "favorite movie of the nineties, other than Boogie Nights."   When asked if Todd Phillips test screens his films he said "Every film I've done.  I think testing a comedy is absolutely one-hundred-percent crucial, and I think testing a movie in general is crucial.  I always find it amazing when directors- outside of Steven Spielberg- just say, "Here's the movie; take it or leave it."  I find it astounding because, ultimately, you really don't know what you have until you put it up there.  Certainly comedy, when you watch it with an audience, then you know, "OK, that works; that doesn't work."  You're making a movie for the audience.  Road Trip was not the story I needed to tell.  It wasn't going to be the pinnacle of my career.  It was a movie I was making to be funny and I think ninety-nine percent of directors who make comedies will tell you the same thing.  It's totally different for Paul Thomas Anderson and people making films that are personal stories that are like, "This is exactly the way I wanted to tell it.  If it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work for you; so be it."

Joe Carnahan even went on to say that "I don't want to see something that a director doesn't personalize in some way.  I look at Punch Drunk Love and I think, Damn, I want to believe that this guy was in love like that at some point in his life, because it movies me in a way that I see myself in that.  I think that's what all great films do for us.  They come down to two very simple things: human beings and human behavior.  At least, the ones that I'm really intrigued and interested by.  I don't need to see fucking spaceships blow up."

When Roger Dodger & P.S. writer/director Dylan Kidd was asked Are there filmmakers out there who you'd like to emulate?, he said: "Two guys I would like to emulate are Linklater and Winterbottom, because they're prolific and versatile.  They're able to play in both worlds- big studio stuff and smaller indies.  There's something less intimidating about Richard Linklater.  I watch a P.T. Anderson movie and I feel like crawling under the covers like, "My God, I would never move the camera like that.  That guy's a genius.  I should go back and work in real estate."  With Linklater and Winterbottom there's something that isn't too precious about their movies that I really like.  It never feels labored.  It feels like a bunch of really smart, passionate people got together and made a movie." 

When Neil LaBute was asked Whose films today do you make a point of watching?, he too names Paul Thomas Anderson along with Woody Allen, Eric Rohmer, Mike Leigh, Jane Campion the Coen brothers and fellow Anderson, Wes.

I've heard that you like to watch movies every night while you're shooting a film?
Brett Ratner: Yeah.  I always do that.  It keeps it fresh for me.  I tend not to watch movies in the same genre.  I watch movies in different genres and there might be a similar scene.  I have so many references.  That's why Scorsese and Spielberg are so quick on their feet and do such great work- because they have all the references.  They've seen what works.  I think that's what helps me too.  Look, I'm not like De Palma or even Paul Thomas Anderson.  I can watch Paul Thomas Anderson's films and tell you in every scene what movie he's taking from.  I know those references, but that's kind of blatant stuff that he does because he wants to show you he loves those movies.  My stuff is subliminal.  You would never even pick it up, really.  It's very subtle stuff. 

You were going to remake Cassavetes's Killing of a Chinese Bookie with Warren [Beatty] werent you?
Brett Ratner: Yeah.  I got cursed out by a lot of friends of mine who were just like, "That's a classic!" It's Paul Thomas Anderson's favorite movie, so to Paul I was the antichrist. 

Do you think you have a smaller, less mainstream film in you?
Brett Ratner:  My taste is accessible to what audiences want.  Some people just have certain sensibilities, and I'm not going to apologize for mine.  I was always envious of Paul Thomas Anderson because he was like, "Oh, me and Jonathan Demme are buddies and me and Kubrick hung out on the set with Tom and Nicole."  I was jealous of that and I was like, "Shit, I want to be friends with these directors," and I thought I have to make my personal film about someone dying of brain cancer or whatever to get the respect.  But then, after Rush Hour, when I got calls from Demme and Beatty and Bob Evans and all these guys I'm like, "You know what?  Directors aren't snobs."  They love a movie no matter what the genre is, if it works.  It gave me so much confidence because I was just like, "OK, I don't have to go make Boogie Nights."


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In the latest Entertainment Weekly, Paul Haggis writes in his tribute to Robert Altman...

"I had the great honor of meeting Altman last year.  After the Oscars there's a group picture taken, and I got to stand a few shoulder-widths away.  It was truly the highlight of a great night.  When we were leaving, my friend Bennett Miller invited me to Paul Thomas Anderson's house for a quiet late-night drink.  I'd always wanted to meet Paul, so naturally I went.  And there, on the sofa, at 3 a.m., sat Robert Altman, his honorary Academy Award on the coffee table before him.  I honestly didn't know what to say- what do you say to a genius, someone you admire so much?  I opted for asking if I could get him a cup of coffee or a drink.  He said he was fine and asked where my Oscars were.  I said in the car.  I admired his- and the thought struck me that his looked taller.  He leaned forward and winked: "Mine is bigger, you know."


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also: i know Judd Apatow has mentioned him several times but i can't remember where i put those.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ElPandaRoyal on February 18, 2008, 01:29:40 PM
Which current directors do you admire? —Abigail Hoover, St. Paul, Minn.
Usually they are younger directors who are fighting to get good films made—not standard, formulaic Hollywood venal projects. I like [Paul Thomas Anderson] who did There Will Be Blood. I liked him from his earlier movies. I like the films I've seen of Alexander Payne's.

-- Woody Allen, TIME, "Ten Questions for Woody Allen"
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: MacGuffin on October 02, 2008, 01:09:23 AM
From Entertainment Weekly:

Despite an Emmy and a pair of Golden Globes for The Office, breathless reviews for his HBO series Extras, and an inspired guest turn on The Simpsons where he tried to seduce Marge with an acoustic love song about ''Lady Di,'' Ricky Gervais isn't a celebrity in America yet. Not in the Brad Pitt sense of the word at least. So it's a little strange that he feels the need to check in to hotels here under a fake name.

When Gervais — or, should we say, ''Paul Anderson'' — answers the door of his suite at the Four Seasons in New York, he doesn't look much like a celebrity, either. He looks like a traveling salesman who's just been shaken out of a nap. He's wearing a black T-shirt and baggy sweatpants. His face is covered in stubble. A half-finished bottle of red wine, presumably from the night before, sits atop the minibar.

When he's asked right off the bat who Paul Anderson is, Gervais takes a seat on the sofa and shifts around uncomfortably. He didn't know this was coming and he wants to explain, because he knows that if he doesn't, he'll come off like an arrogant jerk for using an alias. On the flip side, it means that he'll also have to come up with a new fake name to use in the future. A future when, perhaps, he will be famous enough in the States to need one.

After a few stammering moments, Gervais sighs. ''He's a guy I used to work with at a radio station in England. I just thought it was such a wonderfully generic name...Paul Anderson. It's got nothing to do with the director. I haven't seen There Will Be Blood, although I'm sure it's great.'' With that settled, Gervais asks for help hatching a new identity. When it's suggested that he go with something flashy, like Johnny Depp's infamous hotel pseudonym, ''Mr. Donkey Penis,'' Gervais mulls it over: ''It's a very brave man who calls a hotel and says 'I'd like to speak to Mr. Donkey Penis.' So I see how that would be effective. But let's see...maybe Scott Houston?...Brad Cockmore?...Bob Crunt?''
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: MacGuffin on October 29, 2008, 08:24:56 PM
"I liked the idea of doing something about porn, but mainstream porn had been done and done very well by Paul Thomas Anderson in Boogie Nights. So no point in doing that. I'm not trying to go in there and throw my d*ck down and be all like, 'I'm better than Paul Thomas Anderson.' We all know I'm not." -- Kevin Smith
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pozer on October 29, 2008, 08:45:01 PM
haha such a fool.  whatever years later and still trying to make up for that comment.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: MacGuffin on February 16, 2009, 12:04:01 AM
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But was it appealing to play Milk, who's so different from your public persona?

He appealed, period. I liked him so much, and I just thought, "Can I find him in myself?" I didn't know. And there were times when I'd given it a go and really felt like I failed. You don't know. You just hope. Something kind of good happened, right as we were about to start. I was finishing Into The Wild at Skywalker Ranch, and Paul [Thomas] Anderson was finishing There Will Be Blood there. So we showed each other our movies. And it was really good timing for me. Seeing Daniel Day [Lewis], who I think is a great, great actor - there's something rejuvenating about seeing what it is to suit up. I'm not talking about talent here, I'm talking about commitment - I don't feel challenged by too many of my colleagues in terms of commitment. A lot of them put more effort into selling their pictures than making them. You need people like Daniel Day. Even if you think you're doing your best work or trying your hardest, he woke me up about, you know, "You've got some fucking work to do." That was very healthy for this movie.

So was it almost a kind of - I don't want to say "rivalry," but...

No, it would be the opposite of a rivalry. It would be more of a brotherhood. He's on your team, and he just beat six tackles - now do him a favor and beat seven. There's something about that that just got the juices flowing.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: private witt on February 20, 2009, 06:07:52 PM
I like the line about actors who work harder selling a film than making a film.  I'm looking at you, Liam Nieson.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: picolas on March 25, 2009, 12:04:51 PM
please don't pick on Liam Neeson when there are so many cruddy actors out there. and did you SEE taken? he elevated the shit out of it.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gold Trumpet on March 25, 2009, 12:52:15 PM
Yea, I don't see Liam Neeson on magazine covers and seeing talk show hosts like they were therapists. I see him at press junkets and that's it, but every major actor is stipulated to do those for big films. Give a little more info before you slander someone.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: SiliasRuby on March 25, 2009, 01:00:10 PM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on March 25, 2009, 12:52:15 PM
Give a little more info before you slander someone.
or we are going to slander the fuck out of you.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: private witt on March 25, 2009, 10:42:26 PM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on March 25, 2009, 12:52:15 PM
Give a little more info before you slander someone.

What sort of info do you seek?  He did some good work up until about 1996, but ever since he's stopped challenging himself as an actor and has instead gone for the pop-cinema buck. 
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: picolas on March 25, 2009, 10:53:55 PM
"what sort of info do you seek?"?? if your read the bit of his post before the bit you quoted you'd understand th... oh. i forgot. you never listen to a god damn thing.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Stefen on March 25, 2009, 11:06:29 PM
Damn, we're really roasting Private Witt.

I've been in his situation before. Trying to integrate myself into an already established userbase, but keep getting my posts dissected.

Stick in there, man. You'll learn the ropes.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gold Trumpet on March 25, 2009, 11:09:41 PM
Quote from: private witt on March 25, 2009, 10:42:26 PM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on March 25, 2009, 12:52:15 PM
Give a little more info before you slander someone.

What sort of info do you seek?  He did some good work up until about 1996, but ever since he's stopped challenging himself as an actor and has instead gone for the pop-cinema buck. 

I supported you when I thought you were 17 and a newcomer to movies, but this is ridiculous. I don't want people to just slam you, but you're giving everyone pretty good reason to do so.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: private witt on March 26, 2009, 01:16:59 AM
Why, is the there another unwritten rule about not criticizing Liam and the roles he chooses?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: picolas on March 26, 2009, 01:50:03 AM
never a god damn thing.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: john on March 26, 2009, 02:14:47 AM
Quote from: private witt on March 25, 2009, 10:42:26 PM
  He did some good work up until about 1996, but ever since he's stopped challenging himself as an actor and has instead gone for the pop-cinema buck. 

Really? Since '96, he's worked with Martin Scorsese, Neil Jordan (numerous times), Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, and is in upcoming films by Steven Spielberg and Atom Egoyan. Now, I don't really know how much "pop-cinema buck" can be made from Breakfast on Pluto, but it certainly can't be as much as you think it is.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: private witt on March 26, 2009, 02:53:49 AM
Well, I certainly hope he starts pushing his craft again with his upcoming roles.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: picolas on March 26, 2009, 02:55:24 AM
not a god. damn. thing.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gold Trumpet on March 26, 2009, 08:11:10 AM
Quote from: private witt on March 26, 2009, 01:16:59 AM
Why, is the there another unwritten rule about not criticizing Liam and the roles he chooses?

OK moron, here comes an explanation. When Sean Penn made his original quote, he was talking about actors who fashion themselves as models and spokespeople before they do as actors. He's made other quotes like this to other sources so it's a continuing point of frustation for him. You quoted him like you were in agreement and put up Liam Neeson as your shining example. I responded and thought that was ridiculous because he seemed to be the opposite. Now I find (with your direct ignorance of my posting) that you were just criticizing his choice of roles even though that had nothing to do with Penn's original statement.

Yes, you're fucking ridiculous and congratulations, because I try to be the last person here that resorts to name calling or slamming, but you continue to outdue yourself.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alexandro on March 26, 2009, 06:21:04 PM

what the fuck is this? liam neeson was awesome in fucking kinsey. that should be enough. he rocked in gangs of new york too. and is spielberg ever does his damn lincoln movie he will kick ass there also. jesus.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: picolas on March 26, 2009, 06:27:54 PM
i bet he'll respond with something that ignores what people are saying. just a guess.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Stefen on March 26, 2009, 06:30:31 PM
Quote from: Alexandro on March 26, 2009, 06:21:04 PMfucking kinsey.

lulz.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: NEON MERCURY on March 26, 2009, 10:04:57 PM
Quote from: Stefen on March 25, 2009, 11:06:29 PM
Damn, we're really roasting Private Witt.

I've been in his situation before. Trying to integrate myself into an already established userbase, but keep getting my posts dissected.

Stick in there, man. You'll learn the ropes.

haha! you rule 8)

but witt, seriously, you did two things wrong in my book...you picked on a guy who's

1.) wife just died
2.) and of all the actors you come up w/liam.....????


by the way, you need to be nice to me
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Stefen on March 26, 2009, 11:11:21 PM
To be fair, Witt made the post about Neeson before Natasha had even had the accident or died.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: SiliasRuby on March 26, 2009, 11:14:53 PM
Quote from: pyramid machine on March 26, 2009, 10:04:57 PM
by the way, you need to be nice to me
and me too.....
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: NEON MERCURY on March 27, 2009, 01:14:59 AM
Quote from: Stefen on March 26, 2009, 11:11:21 PM
To be fair, Witt made the post about Neeson before Natasha had even had the accident or died.

touche  :doh:

the edit button is mine/witt's friend
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: SiliasRuby on March 27, 2009, 05:23:49 PM
Witt hasn't answered, perhaps GT scared him off with his intellectualism.....j/k GT we all still love you....
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gold Trumpet on March 27, 2009, 05:49:32 PM
Quote from: SiliasRuby on March 27, 2009, 05:23:49 PM
Witt hasn't answered, perhaps GT scared him off with his intellectualism.....j/k GT we all still love you....

I countered him with fact based opinion, but I lowered my position with the name calling. He doesn't need to reply to me because of that, but I don't care anyways.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: private witt on March 29, 2009, 06:09:06 AM
Yeah, I've been kind of wondering why you all love to name call so much instead of sharing alternate opinions.  As far as Liam goes, I saw a lot of the press junkets he did for 'Taken', and I must say that I was (pun) taken aback at home much he didn't seem to really care about selling the film as much as he felt the need to talk politics and bash people that care about animal rights and clean public drinking water.  So that's why I ragged on him a little bit.  Shit, you'd of thought I said that 'Lost' is the worst show on TV, the way you all flipped your shit!
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gold Trumpet on March 29, 2009, 10:20:49 AM
Yea, you saw the the press junkets in their entirety and noticed how Liam Neeson was controlling the questions or purposely averting talking about the film to discuss personal causes. And even if he was, that's the same as any other bimbo celebrity who is making their personal life the headlines in what they discus...

Oh, you know what other actor talks about causes in interviews? Sean Penn. Yea, we name call you, but you really deserve it. You are a fucking idiot.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pozer on March 29, 2009, 01:30:16 PM
Gold Trump, i've found this is a much better place if you simply scroll past dim-witted posts. everyone should do it. even you, Stephan :yabbse-shocked:

same thing goes for those eastcoasters who run here after Lost to report their thoughts sans spoiler cap. actually, ignore ANYTHING with a bad rap or valueless ruby just to be safe. 
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: picolas on March 29, 2009, 01:36:21 PM
i hate to drag out this disgraceful exchange but that's the exact opposite of what Sean Penn was describing.

cause you're saying Liam Neeson "didn't seem to really care about selling the film" and that was your problem with him, but Penn was saying "A lot of them put more effort into selling their pictures than making them". so you saw Liam Neeson at some press junkets, something GT has pointed out every actor is required to do, and he wasn't talking about his film very much and you took Sean Penn's quote, interpreted it as meaning exactly the opposite of what it meant, and posted a veiled reference to Liam Neeson... so essentially my point is you never listen to a god damn thing and you're an idiot.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gold Trumpet on March 29, 2009, 01:48:47 PM
Quote from: Pozer on March 29, 2009, 01:30:16 PM
Gold Trump, i've found this is a much better place if you simply scroll past dim-witted posts.

I know and that's the hope because I can say stupid shit sometimes too, but everyone has points of exception. This topic has overblown a little bit but I think Wittless has hit the end of his bad argument. I know I'm going outside of character, but I hope not to have great reason to post about this again.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: private witt on March 29, 2009, 08:28:12 PM
Quote from: picolas on March 29, 2009, 01:36:21 PM
so essentially my point is you never listen to a god damn thing and you're an idiot.

I'm sorry, what was that?  I wasn't listening.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: private witt on March 29, 2009, 08:29:29 PM
Quote from: picolas on March 29, 2009, 01:36:21 PM
so essentially my point is you never listen to a god damn thing and you're an idiot.

All I know is that Liam has turned into a shitty actor who can't even promote his shitty movies well.  End scene.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: picolas on March 29, 2009, 11:08:31 PM
but at least admit you're ignoring Sean Penn.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: private witt on March 30, 2009, 12:03:25 AM
Quote from: picolas on March 29, 2009, 11:08:31 PM
but at least admit you're ignoring Sean Penn.

I'll admit that Liam's gone one step further and can't do either very well anymore.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: picolas on March 30, 2009, 01:12:13 AM
it took me like a minute to figure out what that meant cause you're being vague to sound clever. my point still totally stands.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: private witt on April 01, 2009, 05:06:17 PM
Just a tiny mention of TWBB from Paul Dano:  http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/04/five_questions.php
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: private witt on April 01, 2009, 05:08:29 PM
Quote from: picolas on March 30, 2009, 01:12:13 AM
it took me like a minute to figure out what that meant cause you're being vague to sound clever.

No, you're just too fucking stupid to understand plain english and you hoped if you were a prick long enough you'd get me to stop placating you.  Congrats, dick.  You got it.  Go fuck yourself if you're too stupid to read and have to make up supposed intentions of what other people post, fucking stupid motherfucker.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: picolas on April 01, 2009, 10:57:01 PM
uh. no. vague. and pretty much a troll now.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: private witt on April 02, 2009, 02:06:14 AM
Quote from: picolas on April 01, 2009, 10:57:01 PM
uh. no. vague. and pretty much a troll now.

No, just April fools day foolery. 
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: hedwig on April 02, 2009, 11:15:01 AM
private witt, was your april fools joke an attempt to expand upon my april fools joke?

that embarrasses me, dude.  :yabbse-undecided:
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Derek on December 29, 2009, 03:50:04 PM
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/28/ron-howards-favorite-movies-of-2009-and-david-wains-best-so-so-movies-of-the-decade/


PTA gets a shout out from Howard as someone he admires/envies..
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Convael on December 29, 2009, 05:36:25 PM
I wonder if he knows about PTA's "little ronnie howard" comment during the PDL press rounds?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Stefen on December 29, 2009, 05:50:26 PM
^whats that about?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ElPandaRoyal on December 29, 2009, 06:35:26 PM
Quote from: Stefen on December 29, 2009, 05:50:26 PM
^whats that about?

It was not that bad. When he was in Portugal for a press conference about PDL, he said the movie wouldn't win any Oscars because they'd rather give them to little Ronnie Howard (I believe this came out after A Beautiful Mind, right?). It was actually really funny.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: modage on December 30, 2009, 11:17:08 AM
PTA makes a cameo about an hour into the Funny People documentary at the friends and family test screening of the film.  Judd shouts him out as well as the 2nd person thanked in the credits.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Convael on December 30, 2009, 11:39:22 AM
Quote from: ElPandaRoyal on December 29, 2009, 06:35:26 PM
Quote from: Stefen on December 29, 2009, 05:50:26 PM
^whats that about?

It was not that bad. When he was in Portugal for a press conference about PDL, he said the movie wouldn't win any Oscars because they'd rather give them to little Ronnie Howard (I believe this came out after A Beautiful Mind, right?). It was actually really funny.
ah yeah sorry it wasn't that bad but it was still a diss.  They asked if PTA thought that the Academy would recognize someone like Adam Sandler or PSH (this was before Capote) and PTA said no and cited Ron howard/A Beautiful Mind basically as what's wrong with the Oscar voters.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: picolas on December 30, 2009, 02:58:26 PM
Quote from: modage on December 30, 2009, 11:17:08 AM
PTA makes a cameo about an hour into the Funny People documentary at the friends and family test screening of the film.  Judd shouts him out as well as the 2nd person thanked in the credits.
can someone with the dvd somehow post those seconds?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Derek on December 30, 2009, 03:29:16 PM
Tarantino this time.

http://www.joblo.com/qt-talks-stuff

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: md on December 30, 2009, 11:24:09 PM
Interview where I mention my PTA encounter regarding TWBB. 

http://bit.ly/8NFGw3

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Stefen on January 22, 2010, 11:05:47 PM
Jason Reitman was on Bill Simmons podcast today and he was talking about how Bridges is now the fave for best actor over Clooney and he says, "Jeff Bridges hit a wave that some actors hit after people feel they discovered an unknown movie. It's like Daniel Day-Lewis last year or the year before for whatever that one movie was."

lol.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gold Trumpet on January 23, 2010, 04:01:49 AM
Quote from: Stefen on January 22, 2010, 11:05:47 PM
Jason Reitman was on Bill Simmons podcast today and he was talking about how Bridges is now the fave for best actor over Clooney and he says, "Jeff Bridges hit a wave that some actors hit after people feel they discovered an unknown movie. It's like Daniel Day-Lewis last year or the year before for whatever that one movie was."

lol.

to go left field a little bit, but that was ultimate Jason Reitman interview. I want my favorite filmmaker to give an interview as open and as freewheeling as Reitman did for Simmons' podcast, but yea, excellent stuff.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Stefen on January 23, 2010, 04:06:05 AM
Well, I think a lot of it had to do with the situation of the interview. It wasn't a press type of thing. It was just two dudes talking shit. Reitman was able to let his guard down.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gold Trumpet on January 23, 2010, 04:30:18 AM
It was an awesome interview. I'm considering just keeping it on my Ipod, but when discussing making sports movies, Jason Reitman spoke true words when he said "Bull Durham made it hard to make a baseball movie." I've been trying to conceive a baseball movie for two years and keep running into "Bull Durham already did this" problem so that was a "fuck, yea" moment for me.

OK, PTA misdirection over. Continue on, geeks.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pozer on January 23, 2010, 01:10:07 PM
Quote from: modage on December 30, 2009, 11:17:08 AM
PTA makes a cameo about an hour into the Funny People documentary at the friends and family test screening of the film.

i started loling when i saw he was wearing  that friggin brown shirt (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=7428.msg258645;topicseen#msg258645).

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lex on February 08, 2010, 03:21:41 PM
i think in the begining he is talking about pta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClFBKaJIrPo
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pubrick on February 08, 2010, 08:13:14 PM
Quote from: Lex on February 08, 2010, 03:21:41 PM
i think in the begining he is talking about pta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClFBKaJIrPo

uh yeah i guess he (Quentin Tarantino) is probably talking about pta in the first 10 seconds of that clip but the point of it is obviously about Brian De Palma and that story quentin has told many times before. the first 10 seconds are only a lead up to the point of the clip and as such offer absolutely NO insight about anything.

you took the title of the thread too literally.. great, qt mentioned PTA again. so?

what he alludes to very vaguely has already been covered extensively in his introduction to There Will Be Blood (aka CMBB) which he presented as part of some tarantino week on some UK channel, posted elsewhere.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lex on February 09, 2010, 01:20:20 PM
regardless... it fits the content. and if someone were to find the begining of that video, i would like to see it.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Derek on February 09, 2010, 08:14:49 PM
I think its posted at slashfilm.com

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: modage on June 24, 2010, 01:03:49 PM
Jonah Hill on his 5 Favorite Movies incl. Boogie Nights:

"Paul Thomas Anderson, it was difficult to not have all 5 of my favorite movies be yours."

video (& other picks): http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cyrus/news/1890197/five_favorite_films_with_jonah_hill
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: MacGuffin on November 01, 2011, 05:40:01 PM
Albert Brooks Was Forced To Turn Down Burt Reynolds' Role In 'Boogie Nights' Because Of Scheduling
'Drive' Star Also Passed On 'Big,' 'Dead Poets Society' And 'Pretty Woman'
Source: Playlist

Of the many things that have made a comeback in 2011—Wilson Phillips, high-waisted pants, the street protest—perhaps the happiest is the resurgence of Albert Brooks. Mostly absent from screens in the past decade, bar a vocal turn in Pixar's masterpiece "Finding Nemo," and his directorial flop "Looking For Comedy In The Muslim World," Brooks returned with an acclaimed book, "2030: The Real Story of What Happened to America," took to Twitter and instantly became the funniest thing on it, and played, against type, mobster Bernie Rose in Nicolas Winding Refn's "Drive," a performance that looks likely to take him to the Oscars.

There's more on the way, including a turn as Paul Rudd's father in Judd Apatow's "This is Forty," but in the meantime Brooks has been talking to Collider, and reflecting on some of the parts he's turned down over the years. The polymath tells the site that he's planning on spending the next few years acting, as making his own movies has forced him to pass on projects over years, and the actor mentions the likes of "Dead Poets Society," "Big" and "Pretty Woman," roles eventually taken by Robin Williams, Tom Hanks and Richard Gere.

It's intriguing to think of how those projects might have turned out with Brooks in the lead, but the most interesting bit of information is that he was offered the part of sleazeball porn producer Jack Horner in Paul Thomas Anderson's breakout "Boogie Nights," which was eventually taken by Burt Reynolds. Brooks relates "One part that I actually wanted to play, and I was in pre-production of my own movie, just because I thought I wanted to work with Paul [Thomas Anderson] was the part that Burt Reynolds got in 'Boogie Nights.' I liked that whole ensemble. When I read that script, I really liked it."

Considering that the film Brooks was prepping must have been "Mother," one of his lesser efforts, it must have stung a little, but Brooks isn't hung up on it. "I couldn't shut down what I was doing. But, regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything." And he should take comfort in not being the only person to turn the film down—both Warren Beatty and Sydney Pollack turned the part down, and later expressed regret. And with Brooks now firmly back on radars after "Drive," maybe PTA will find something for him in his next project, maybe in the Thomas Pynchon adaptation "Inherent Vice"? We'd drink a milkshake to that.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: theyarelegion on November 23, 2011, 12:54:22 PM
"Being in US WEEKLY does NOT make you famous. Paul Thomas Anderson does not read US and go, 'Hey, I want this douchebag in my next film!" -Bradley Cooper, ESQUIRE
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Stefen on November 23, 2011, 04:10:54 PM
Yes, it does. Being in US WEEKLY totally makes you famous. Way more famous than being in a PTA film. Not as respected, but more famous.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Reel on December 07, 2011, 02:21:35 AM
 
from Cigs and Red vines:

During the press rounds for the 'Young Adult', Reitman, Cody, Theron and co-star Patton Oswalt (Delmer Darion himself) were asked which actor or director's they really admired and Cody called herself out as a PTA fan girl and professed her admiration for "Punch-Drunk Love" in particular. Read on (via Collider (http://collider.com/charlize-theron-patton-oswalt-diablo-cody-young-adult-interview/129919/))...

Diablo Cody: I know a lot of people feel this way, so it's not the most original answer. I'm the most insane unrepentant Paul Thomas Anderson fan girl. I've been watching actually Punch Drunk Love a lot lately. I really love that movie. To express that kind of truth in a film is to me so amazing. Even late last night I was watching this old video he directed for Fiona Apple and I was like I couldn't even make a feature film as powerful as this three minute video. I just think he is awesome.

Patton Oswalt: I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ElPandaRoyal on December 07, 2011, 04:55:47 AM
Quote from: Reelist on December 07, 2011, 02:21:35 AMPatton Oswalt: I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.

:lol: Brilliant!
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ElPandaRoyal on August 27, 2012, 04:38:05 AM
Just read this on De Palma A La Mod (http://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/blog/), translated from this page (http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/news/dettaglio/brian-de-palma-a-luci-rosse/420826):

With Scorsese, Lucas, and Spielberg, you founded the New Hollywood. Do you visit with them these days?
"We were friends in the seventies and eighties. We came a long way together. Every now and then we'll see each other. But each of us has our own world. We live in different places, do different things. I continued my research and I now have relationships with younger directors: Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson. I love and I attend this generation, living in Greenwich Village. We meet, we exchange scripts and advice."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: theyarelegion on December 16, 2012, 08:59:49 PM
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ElPandaRoyal on June 15, 2013, 06:25:16 PM
Joss Whedon thinks Magnolia is one of the five best movies of all time. (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/much_ado_about_nothing_2012/news/1927671/five_favorite_films_with_joss_whedon/) This is what he said about it:

"We're back to opera, we haven't left it -- because Magnolia. If you think about the moment Keanu wakes up as a battery, the moment Lana Turner loses it in traffic and is in this insane hysteria of flashing lights that is completely unrealistic, and then you look at the moment where it's raining frogs. I saw it, and was like, "Is this going to be one of those movies that I don't like where he looks down on every one?" I think Alexander Payne and Todd Solondz are super talented, but sometimes I don't want to sit through their movies because the bile is just unbearable. I didn't really know PT Anderson's work that well, or what was going to happen. And then, it turns out he loves people so hard that it rains frogs. There is actual opera in this one. Oh, and BT-dubs, there is a musical number. The license and the observation and the amount that he went for it. The craft and his ability to sustain that much -- any one of these movies could have fallen into a puddle of pretension, but the mastery behind them meant that they never could. Jason Robards, who happens to be in two of the movies on this list, him actually dying of actual cancer playing a guy dying of cancer, giving that speech. And Tom Cruise giving the best performance he'll ever give. It just felt so achingly, weirdly logical to me."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: polkablues on June 15, 2013, 06:43:09 PM
Quote from: Joss Whedon
Oh, and BT-dubs

You are a 48-year-old man.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Kellen on September 06, 2013, 10:42:00 PM
22:19

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pubrick on September 06, 2013, 11:25:43 PM
Came for the shoutout, stayed for the rest of the interview.

DGG is a cool dude, he's so laid back, I guess his films really do reflect who he is. He's just a good guy, good director, probly won't be a classic hero for the ages like PTA or Malick etc, George Washington kinda mislead people to set those expectations. He has a lot of nice things to say about a lot of directors especially in the last few mins of that interview he goes on like a shoutout spree, shoutout shootout?

Good guy David Gordon Green, GGDGG.

Ps. For those who won't be watching the video, what he actually says about PTA is that everyone should be making shorter and cheaper movies under 90mins long, unless you're a PTA like genius who can pace a film in such a way that you don't get itchy butt halfway through. That's right, DGG gets an itchy butt if a movie runs too long.

Cure for itchy butt: PTA.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: matt35mm on September 07, 2013, 03:33:44 AM
Quote from: Kellen on September 06, 2013, 10:42:00 PM
22:19


Quote from: Pubrick on September 06, 2013, 11:25:43 PM
Came for the shoutout, stayed for the rest of the interview.

DGG is a cool dude, he's so laid back, I guess his films really do reflect who he is. He's just a good guy, good director, probly won't be a classic hero for the ages like PTA or Malick etc, George Washington kinda mislead people to set those expectations. He has a lot of nice things to say about a lot of directors especially in the last few mins of that interview he goes on like a shoutout spree, shoutout shootout?

Good guy David Gordon Green, GGDGG.

Ps. For those who won't be watching the video, what he actually says about PTA is that everyone should be making shorter and cheaper movies under 90mins long, unless you're a PTA like genius who can pace a film in such a way that you don't get itchy butt halfway through. That's right, DGG gets an itchy butt if a movie runs too long.

Cure for itchy butt: PTA.

I know it's not a DGG thread, BUT watching this made me realize that I love reading/watching/listening to his interviews because he doesn't just repeat the same stories or soundbites, which is typical of anyone being interviewed many times about the same thing (not that I blame anyone for that... in some ways I like it, as long as it's not robotic, because hearing the same story a lot of times but phrased slightly differently each time is sort of captivating to me).

DGG is really good at engaging in the moment with the person in front of him, and he's a really chatty guy, and he'll just chat. He doesn't seem to come too prepared, and he'll toss a curveball answer without missing a beat. I think this is reflected in most of his movies, and is probably at the core of why his movies (even his not-so-great ones) feel genuine. They're all made by this fast-talking giant kid who wants to zig rather than zag, even in his interviews, but never in a way that makes you feel like he's just fucking with you. I once talked with him one-on-one after a Q&A and had such a strange mix of ease and intimidation all at once. I live with one of his high school buddies now.


admin edit: added context
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Just Withnail on September 12, 2013, 04:12:01 AM
Quote from: Xavier DolanYeah and you admit that and want to make something people will see.
Yes, I'm not into the whole fuck Hollywood field. I worship it and I have so much fun those films. I'm not going to stick to one genre or one film my entire life. This something that I hope in ten years, when I'll be dead, people will say about me, that I did make different things. That's what I admire about Paul Thomas Anderson, that he can do Boogie Nights and then Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love—which is basically, staged and choreographed from the first second to the last and every shot in there is pure. It's everything.

He claimed it was his take on the conventional romantic comedy.
Well what happened on set, Paul? I think whatever his initial goal was, the result is really, really a masterpiece. He's so versatile, that's what impressive, it's his ability to do that movie and then There Will Be Blood.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilder on September 13, 2013, 10:44:46 PM
Roman Polanski, risking arrest, gives a master class at Poland's Gydnia Film Festival
via The Dissolve

At age 80, Roman Polanski is still technically a fugitive from justice, making his appearance yesterday and today at Poland's Gydnia Film Festival something of a surprise. Polanski was last in the country two years ago for a friend's funeral and a rare recent Vanity Fair profile noted that his inability to move around for fear of extradition relating to still-open charges regarding his 1977 rape of then-13-year-old Samantha Geimer was somewhat exaggerated: "in February 2009, for example, Polanski's lawyers announced in open court that he would be filming in Germany (from where he was extraditable); Polanski had also shot The Pianist there in 2001, had owned a house in Spain for 20 years, served as a judge at the Venice Film Festival, and spent most of 1985 filming in Tunisia."

The rape has re-entered the news cycle once again due to Geimer's memoir The Girl: A Life In The Shadow Of Roman Polanski, which comes out next Tuesday. The director was arrested four years ago at the Zurich Film Festival and was subsequently kept under house arrest until American authorities failed in their extradition efforts. Presumably in an effort to maximize his security, only film students were allowed to attend his master class, and today's screening of his latest movie Venus In Furs was invitation-only with a high security level. Though barred from attending the master class, The Hollywood Reporter's Nick Holdsworth spoke with one of the attending students, who said Polanski spoke in Polish throughout and named There Will Be Blood and Suicide Room (a grim-sounding 2011 Polish drama about an Internet-fixated teen lad that didn't make many waves outside the country) as two of his favorite recent films.

Polanski's attendance is something of a coup for the festival's artistic director Michal Chacinski, who was appointed three years ago (as Holdsworth also reported) "on a radical brief to transform an event many agreed had become stale." Chacinski's first action was to cut the main competition slate from 24 to 12 films, part of an initiative to make it clear that simply being a Polish film wasn't enough to make the competition cut. "I'm still angry," one anonymous Polish director said. "But I respect that Chacinski has a set of criteria and concepts and decided my film should not be in competition." With Chacinski's contract up for renewal next month, Polanski's attention-getting appearance presumably makes his reappointment more likely.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Mel on October 09, 2013, 04:15:03 AM
Nicolas Cage told he would love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson
via Metronews (http://www.metronews.fr/culture/deauville-nicolas-cage-parfois-j-ai-des-envies-de-film-pop/mmic!XKxJgmBFJIuY/)

Avec quels cinéastes aimeriez-vous travailler ?
Paul Thomas Anderson est remarquable. J'ai adoré The Master. Sinon en France, Gaspar Noé ! Il a puissamment réinventé la narration avec Irréversible. C'est un super film même s'il est difficile à voir.

English translation:

With which filmmakers would you like to work?
Paul Thomas Anderson is remarkable. I loved The Master. Otherwise in France, Gaspar Noe! He powerfully reinvented the narration with Irreversible. This is a great movie even if it is difficult to watch.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lottery on October 09, 2013, 08:05:45 AM
I support this. He probably could have slotted in somewhere in Inherent Vice.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Reel on October 09, 2013, 10:22:03 AM
Laura Dern on WTF (http://www.wtfpod.com)


Marc Maron: "That explosion that your parents were involved in that you grew up in was the most defining era of American movies."

Laura Dern: "Let's be clear, there was another parent in the house. Paul Thomas Anderson is the only person I've talked to about this, because he also lived in the Valley at the same time, and at the same school for a couple years. There was my Mother, there was my Father, both working actors- GONE. Who was my babysitter? Z CHANNEL. And there weren't restrictions, buddy. So I was 11 years old watching A Clockwork Orange."



...I need to watch the Z Channel doc again.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Just Withnail on October 10, 2013, 04:38:48 AM
Quote from: Laura Dern
Who was my babysitter? Z CHANNEL. And there weren't restrictions, buddy. So I was 11 years old watching A Clockwork Orange."

My film interest has sort of a similar origin story. I absolutely hated cheese when I was younger. I couldn't stand it, and in Norway we have this brown cheese that would make me belch just by smelling it. In the first few years of school, when school only lasted four hours, everyone would go to these after school programs until their parents were off work in the afternoon. I have a vivid recollection of being force-fed this brown cheese one day and refusing to contiune going there. Which led to me having plenty of hours at home alone in front of the TV and with the scandinavian channel Filmnet as my companion. They didn't really have any restrictions about what they would air in the daytime.

I'll be the first to admit that being force-fed in the after school program sounds sort of fishy and something I've made up, but my parents don't seem to remember the real reason I stopped going, so I'm going with this one. My hate of cheese made me love film, and now I love cheese too (except that brown one, which I still can't get myself to try).
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: DocSportello on November 18, 2013, 06:30:48 PM
Couldn't choose whether to put this in the Bret Easton Ellis thread or here but I figured that this was a shout out from such a megastar that it deserved to be here...plus Easton Ellis annoys me so I really didn't want to give his thread a bump.

Anyway Ellis has a brand spankin new podcast on which he just had Kanye West and within the first 2 minutes Kanye shouts out PTA by saying that the only movie in recent memory that he obsessed over to the point of watching it 30-40 times was There Will Be Blood. Here's the link if you wanna hear it from the man himself, but that's all he says about it so it's up to you.

http://podcastone.com/Bret-Easton-Ellis-Podcast (http://podcastone.com/Bret-Easton-Ellis-Podcast)

Edit: I said it was within the first 2 minutes but it was actually at around the 4:20 mark because, go figure, Ellis wouldn't shut up long enough for Kanye to answer the question he was trying to ask. Also, its the debut episode of the podcast that is the Kanye one.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Reel on November 18, 2013, 06:37:06 PM
Thanks, that's awesome. I'm gonna stop everything I'm doing and listen to that...I'm not really doing anything, but I'm gonna stop it so I can let those douche's voices permeate my eardrums and get oh so much sadistic pleasure from it.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Cloudy on November 18, 2013, 11:20:06 PM
*Deleted bc I realized it was a dumb thing to say.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: martinthewarrior on November 19, 2013, 08:03:54 AM
It feels bizarre that a fan of Anderson, a director who has spent a career bending over backwards in order to avoid judgment of his characters, would be bummed that "someone like kanye" would enjoy the same film as him. Seems like a kind of gross way to think about movies and people.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Reel on November 19, 2013, 08:07:02 AM
http://podcastone.com/Bret-Easton-Ellis-Podcast


listen to Kanye when Bret interjects at 23:45. He sounds like a serial killer outside a woman's window watching her undress.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: DocSportello on November 19, 2013, 09:06:02 AM
Quote from: Reelist on November 19, 2013, 08:07:02 AM

listen to Kanye when Bret interjects at 23:45. He sounds like a serial killer outside a woman's window watching her undress.

I'm in class on a phone so I can't check what part of the conversation that is, but I bet it's when Ellis takes over the bootleg topic because I noticed the same thing. He sounded like Beavis and/or Butthead to me. Heavy mouth-breathing n' shit.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: modage on November 22, 2013, 02:27:23 PM
The Rat, still talking about PTA (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/brett-ratner-talks-roman-polanskis-weekend-of-a-champion-rush-hour-4-his-version-of-superman-and-more-20131122?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&page=2#blogPostHeaderPanel), 15 years later...

"Look, Scorsese and Spielberg will reference the same movies, like "Peeping Tom" by Michael Powell, because they're the same age basically. So if you ask Paul Thomas Anderson, even if we're completely different filmmakers, all of his favorite movies are my favorite movies. It just is. So it's because we grew up in that era. The '70s, to us, was the end all. We saw the movies of the '50s and '60s but they didn't mean as much."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Kellen on November 22, 2013, 04:52:09 PM
It used to be kinda funny but now it's just embarrassing.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Kellen on January 08, 2014, 07:00:52 PM
scorsese letter

Dearest Francesca,

I'm writing this letter to you about the future. I'm looking at it through the lens of my world. Through the lens of cinema, which has been at the center of that world.

For the last few years, I've realized that the idea of cinema that I grew up with, that's there in the movies I've been showing you since you were a child, and that was thriving when I started making pictures, is coming to a close. I'm not referring to the films that have already been made. I'm referring to the ones that are to come.

I don't mean to be despairing. I'm not writing these words in a spirit of defeat. On the contrary, I think the future is bright.

We always knew that the movies were a business, and that the art of cinema was made possible because it aligned with business conditions. None of us who started in the 60s and 70s had any illusions on that front. We knew that we would have to work hard to protect what we loved. We also knew that we might have to go through some rough periods. And I suppose we realized, on some level, that we might face a time when every inconvenient or unpredictable element in the moviemaking process would be minimized, maybe even eliminated. The most unpredictable element of all? Cinema. And the people who make it.

I don't want to repeat what has been said and written by so many others before me, about all the changes in the business, and I'm heartened by the exceptions to the overall trend in moviemaking – Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, David Fincher, Alexander Payne, the Coen Brothers, James Gray and Paul Thomas Anderson are all managing to get pictures made, and Paul not only got The Master made in 70mm, he even got it shown that way in a few cities. Anyone who cares about cinema should be thankful.

And I'm also moved by the artists who are continuing to get their pictures made all over the world, in France, in South Korea, in England, in Japan, in Africa. It's getting harder all the time, but they're getting the films done.

But I don't think I'm being pessimistic when I say that the art of cinema and the movie business are now at a crossroads. Audio-visual entertainment and what we know as cinema – moving pictures conceived by individuals – appear to be headed in different directions. In the future, you'll probably see less and less of what we recognize as cinema on multiplex screens and more and more of it in smaller theaters, online, and, I suppose, in spaces and circumstances that I can't predict.

So why is the future so bright? Because for the very first time in the history of the art form, movies really can be made for very little money. This was unheard of when I was growing up, and extremely low budget movies have always been the exception rather than the rule. Now, it's the reverse. You can get beautiful images with affordable cameras. You can record sound. You can edit and mix and color-correct at home. This has all come to pass.

But with all the attention paid to the machinery of making movies and to the advances in technology that have led to this revolution in moviemaking, there is one important thing to remember: the tools don't make the movie, you make the movie. It's freeing to pick up a camera and start shooting and then put it together with Final Cut Pro. Making a movie – the one you need to make – is something else. There are no shortcuts.

If John Cassavetes, my friend and mentor, were alive today, he would certainly be using all the equipment that's available. But he would be saying the same things he always said – you have to be absolutely dedicated to the work, you have to give everything of yourself, and you have to protect the spark of connection that drove you to make the picture in the first place. You have to protect it with your life. In the past, because making movies was so expensive, we had to protect against exhaustion and compromise. In the future, you'll have to steel yourself against something else: the temptation to go with the flow, and allow the movie to drift and float away.

This isn't just a matter of cinema. There are no shortcuts to anything. I'm not saying that everything has to be difficult. I'm saying that the voice that sparks you is your voice – that's the inner light, as the Quakers put it.

That's you. That's the truth.

All my love,

Dad
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Reel on January 08, 2014, 08:05:39 PM
Who wrote that? I couldn't read between the lines
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lottery on January 08, 2014, 08:08:42 PM
That guy that plays Van Gogh in Kurosawa's Dreams. You know, that one dude who plays the upset husband in Taxi Driver.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Reel on January 08, 2014, 08:58:21 PM
John Stamos?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Mel on January 10, 2014, 03:19:08 PM
Unless you're Paul Thomas Anderson... - sentence that David Poland likes to use, when speaking with his guests. Last two I remember:

Time - 27:20


Time - 29:30


I remember hearing few others, but don't feel like searching for them.

edit: Another one:

Time - 17:45
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pubrick on January 15, 2014, 05:59:15 AM
those first two instances are kind of cringey. it's hard to tell if he is saying PTA's long shots are excessive or not and so the poor sods being interviewed just laugh and admit that it's true without stating whether that's a good thing or not. actually jake g says "unless it works", which at least adds context to the interviewer's forced reference. still a bit embarrassing.

it's more clear in the zemeckis interview that the dude likes PTA, but not clear if Z-man gives a shit. it's funny that he says "i've never done that".. sometimes it's easy to think of auteurs as some kind of struggling artist, but here's a dude who has made some legit huge flops that brought studios down (well, one) and he still can't conceive of what it's like to be an "independent" filmmaker. he has powerful friends that much is certain.

don't know who david poland is but i'm not really keen to hear any other time he name drops PTA. keep an eye on his obsession in case it develops into something creepy but right now it's pretty meaningless. all we can draw from this is that he has PTA tourettes and it's awkward seeing his interview subjects have to deal with it.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Kellen on January 16, 2014, 07:23:09 PM
Around the 44/45 min mark. (http://charlierose.com/watch/60318162)

Scorsese talks about how independent filmmakers aren't really supported now like they were in the 70s.  He mentions the "Andersons" to which Charlie says "Wes" and Martin agrees then quickly says also "Paul Thomas".  He also brings up Alexander Payne and the Coens.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: modage on February 27, 2014, 11:35:08 AM
ATTN: True Detective Fans

Daily Beast: It still tickles me that Paul W.S. Anderson has the same name as Paul Thomas Anderson, one of our greatest filmmakers.
Cary Fukunaga: It really is the perfect example of extremes—just use the Paul Anderson scale! P.T. Anderson is one of my—if not my—favorite directors. Him and Cuaron. And Audiard.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/26/true-detective-director-cary-fukunaga-s-journey-from-pro-snowboarder-to-hollywood-s-most-wanted.html
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Kellen on February 27, 2014, 04:33:04 PM
Cary is the man!
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lottery on March 21, 2014, 09:05:21 AM
Goldblum is such a perfectly Coen-y man.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: modage on March 21, 2014, 10:14:22 AM
Working with Wes but dreaming of Paul.

(Somebody banner that, plz.)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lottery on March 24, 2014, 07:51:07 PM
Jonathan Demme on Rachel Getting Married.

"So I had offered the part of Sidney to Paul Thomas Anderson, who is not an actor but is an adorable, enormously likable person, a friend of mine, and he had come to a table read of the script and he was great. And it was funny because Anne was at that table read and when it was over she said, "That guy Paul, he's good, isn't he?" and I go "You mean Paul Thomas Anderson?" and she goes, "That was Paul Thomas Anderson!?" It freaked her out! She goes, "Oh my god! I'm so glad I didn't know that!" I offered the part to Paul and he didn't want to do it, he was finishing up [There Will] Be Blood, and he didn't want to take a part in a movie."

http://www.goodprattle.com/2008/10/rachel-getting-married-director.html

EDIT: This is surely the sort of thing that's been posted before.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pubrick on March 24, 2014, 10:22:16 PM
It hasn't.

Excellent find!

It confirms my suspicion that Anne Hathaway is a cinematic idiot.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lottery on April 15, 2014, 06:32:56 AM
(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi58.tinypic.com%2Fxfq3a0.jpg&hash=9f157598653e2fc4dcc8489772ea3a1adeed2bc8)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Mel on May 09, 2014, 09:31:09 AM
After seeing "Blue Ruin", I was searching for some interviews. I stumbled upon this QA session, quote is taken out of context (around 8:40):

Jeremy Saulnier: Boogie Nights is my all time favorite comedy.

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alexandro on July 19, 2014, 12:49:20 AM
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/18/woody-allen-on-magic-in-the-moonlight-the-crisis-in-gaza-new-york-city-and-those-allegations.html (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/18/woody-allen-on-magic-in-the-moonlight-the-crisis-in-gaza-new-york-city-and-those-allegations.html)

Are there any young filmmakers out there that have really grabbed your attention?

Well, is... Paul Thomas Anderson a young gun? I think he's a terrific filmmaker. There are. I can't think of them all off the top of my head, but he's one that springs to mind. Naturally, the guys that I'm always crazy about are more from my generation—Scorsese, Francis Coppola, Oliver Stone, and people like that.

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lottery on December 25, 2014, 09:29:28 PM
Tony Hale Reddit AMA from a year ago.

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FxVD0eVS.jpg&hash=6c067c2efc17a4f70fc704ece5943fc84a66dfb8)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on December 26, 2014, 12:11:08 AM
Tony Hale would actually make a decent Barry Egan.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gittes on February 16, 2015, 06:19:52 AM
Mike Shoemaker, who previously produced SNL and later joined Seth Meyers' new show, tweeted this (https://twitter.com/shoemakermike/status/566296318826782720/photo/1):

Quote from:
In the studio watching Dick in a Box play before the live crowd, with Akiva and Paul Thomas Anderson.  #mySNLdays
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9vjgCpIgAAKWkO.jpg)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gittes on April 27, 2015, 01:22:16 AM
Robert Downey Jr. was interviewed on the Grantland podcast, and PTA and IV came up. A few quotes:

"But I'm really fortunate in that, first and foremost, I'm friends with PTA. And he is so much more than a filmmaker. He's just someone that you just go: if I could spend a big chunk of every day with this guy, I'd be a better person. So, that's great. And he and my dad are pals, so the three of us are going out to dinner tomorrow. By the way, that, to me, is as exciting a moment as literally being, not just front and centre, but you know, Steely Dan is playing at your birthday party."

On Phoenix in the role and his own supposed involvement in the project:

"A - nobody should have done that movie besides him. B - Paul was never really thinking about me for it. And it's not because he's cryptic. It's because he's been on...you know, it's kind of like there's a Scorsese and De Niro thing. At this point, I would [...] be happy to offer Mr. Anderson any and every film I do from now on. I mean, I love watching what they do."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: DocSportello on June 05, 2015, 10:32:41 AM
 http://www.infiniteguest.org/remember-this/ (http://www.infiniteguest.org/remember-this/)

This podcast is a highlight of my week. The website describes it as "the brainchild and passion project of Karina Longworth (founder of Cinematical.com, former film critic for LA Weekly), who writes, narrates, records and edits each episode."  "a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century".

She also happens to be Rian Johnson's girlfriend.

Anyway during her one year anniversary, ask-me-anything episode she named PTA her favourite living American filmmaker (sorry, Rian) and shared a few quick, kind words on The Master.

She's not a big celeb or anything and I probably should have just put this in the podcast forum but I figured more people would read it here and maybe listen to the podcast so she will in turn continue to make it.

The current season is centred around Charles Manson and his run-in with/affect on Hollywood in the late 60's. Check it out.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Reel on February 15, 2017, 09:25:40 PM
Today on You Made It Weird (http://nerdist.com/you-made-it-weird-354-artie-lange-and-judd-apatow/) Artie Lange is the guest with Judd Apatow as co-host. Adam Sandler comes up in conversation in the last 25 minutes.

Judd Apatow: We do our show "Love" for Netflix, and they always say "Any Adam Sandler movie, if we put it up in a country where it's never run, it instantly is like GIGANTIC." Like you can put "The Wedding Singer" up in Peru and it just explodes, he's just really beloved around the World.

Artie Lange: Well, after "Punch Drunk Love", the French thought he was like Jerry Lewis, right? He was just winning festivals... (laughs)

JA: "Punch Drunk" is one of my favorite movies of all time. I cried hard. I cried for like 30 straight minutes at the end of that movie.

Pete Holmes: You told me the funny PT Anderson thing about that movie, remember? You said like, he was just making a regular romantic comedy, like he didn't intend to make a quirky one. He's just so...

JA: Yeah, I don't know when that changed. He said he wanted to make like a romantic comedy, but I think he's such a genius it just comes out in a unique way.

AL: He wanted Adam to play it more straight, then?

JA: No, no. Maybe this isn't even true, but he was trying to just make a funny romantic comedy and he can't help but do something that's not innovative and daring and incredible. The funny thing is that Adam would say to me like, "You know, I'm doing You and my brother." I watch the movie and I see it, and I think it's why it makes me cry, because he knew me when I was a kid. I was terrible with women, just scared to death. And I see it in the behavior, especially the moment when he's talking about the DJ. He's trying to tell the woman the story about this funny thing the DJ did, but he's just bombing, he's just bombing on this date trying to explain this joke. And I thought "That's how I sound, Adam, everyday." Because I would always live with him and just say "You gotta watch Norm Macdonald. Norm Macdonald is SO funny." And try to tell him Norm jokes and Sandler would go "I don't give a fuck about Norm Macdonald! I'm trying to get famous, why would I care about what anyone else is doing?"
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: HoQTeMR4 on February 16, 2017, 09:08:21 AM
Hello everybody ! You have a great forum here.


I just wanted to share this because Paul Thomas Anderson is my favorite director and Rooney is great too.

http://www.timeout.com/istanbul/film/interview-rooney-mara (http://www.timeout.com/istanbul/film/interview-rooney-mara)

You've talked about being obsessed with directors. Whom would you like to work with?
"Do I say? What if they don't want to work with me, it'll be embarrassing! There are so many. But I'd love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson and Michael Haneke."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilder on March 23, 2017, 11:58:35 PM
Quote from: Cigs & Red VinesThe very smart and good people at the Talk Easy podcast brought us the extensive interview they did with PTA-alum Philip Baker Hall from a couple weeks ago and PBH talks quite a bit about the three films he did with Paul. If you're short on time, that stuff comes in right around the 45 minute mark, but the whole thing seriously warrants listening. Thanks to Sam and Nora from Talk Easy for laying this embarrassment of riches at our feet  --

[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/talkeasypod/episode-44-philip-baker-hall[/soundcloud]
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: citizn on May 17, 2017, 08:04:51 PM
From the recent GQ interview with Brad Pitt:
http://www.gq.com/story/brad-pitt-gq-style-cover-story (http://www.gq.com/story/brad-pitt-gq-style-cover-story)



And the fact that you guys are pointing toward that—that clearly doesn't always happen. If you ended up in court, it would be a spectacular nightmare.
Spectacular. I see it everywhere. Such animosity and bitterly dedicating years to destroying each other. You'll be in court and it'll be all about affairs and it'll be everything that doesn't matter. It's just awful, it looks awful. One of my favorite movies when it came out was There Will Be Blood, and I couldn't figure out why I loved this movie, I just loved this movie, besides the obvious talent of Paul T. and, you know, Daniel Day. But the next morning I woke up, and I went, Oh, my God, this whole movie is dedicated to this man and his hatred. It's so audacious to make a movie about it, and in life I find it just so sickening. I see it happen to friends—I see where the one spouse literally can't tell their own part in it, and is still competing with the other in some way and wants to destroy them and needs vindication by destruction, and just wasting years on that hatred. I don't want to live that way.

Xixaxers may also be interested in the following snippet (although not PTA-related):

When is the acting still exciting?
I would say more in comedic stuff, where you're taking gambles. I can turn out the hits over and over and I just—my favorite movie is the worst-performing film of anything I've done, The Assassination of Jesse James. If I believe something is worthy, then I know it will be worthy in time to come. And there are times I get really cynical, you know. I spend a lot of time on design and even this sculpture folly I'm on, I have days when—it all ends up in the dirt anyways: What's the point? So I go through that cycle, too, you know? What's the point?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: axxonn on May 28, 2017, 08:07:03 AM
David Lynch:  https://youtu.be/0MpMXPcrewI?t=39m17s

(time stamp doesn't work on here apparently but at 39:17)

"I liked Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson. But I did not like his last film. I think he's got a lot of talent."

Referring to TWBB as his "last film".
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Reel on May 28, 2017, 11:24:37 AM
Quote from: axxonn on May 28, 2017, 08:07:03 AM
Referring to TWBB as his "last film".

Haha, apparently everyone stopped making films in 2007
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on May 28, 2017, 01:43:41 PM
the video's title is David Lynch - 03/11/2008
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilder on June 15, 2017, 10:48:39 PM
Interview with Dylan Tichenor (http://nofilmschool.com/2017/06/dylan-tichenor-editor-there-will-be-blood-magnolia)

QuoteBoogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (2000)

Tichenor said that one of the challenges in editing Boogie Nights was how to integrate long takes with coverage as well as figure out the answer to the question, "Whose story are we telling?"

This would become even more of an issue on their next collaboration, the operatic Magnolia, where, in the opening sequence, it was necessary to introduce all of the different characters and their connections, as well as establish rhythm and theme. 

While some of the shots in Magnolia were written into the script, others were shot five or six different ways and then altered in the editing room. Tichenor said that P.T. Anderson uses Microsoft Word to write his scripts, doesn't really adhere to traditional format, and does "all the things you're told never to do" as far as writing camera directions into his scripts. Of course, the editor noted that "Anderson can get away with it."

During post, Tichenor and P.T. Anderson went back and forth over the film's 188-minute runtime. Whenever Tichenor asked if there was anything Anderson would consider cutting from the film, Anderson responded, "'Like what, Dylan? What would you cut?'" Tichenor then related that "about two years later, I get a text from Paul saying, 'Magnolia's playing on TV. It's too long. Great, thanks a lot, Dylan.'" 

There Will Be Blood (2007)

After Magnolia, Tichenor and P.T. Anderson next collaborated on what has recently been named by The New York Times as the best film (so far) of the 21st century: 2007's There Will Be Blood, which earned multiple Academy Award nominations, including one for Tichenor. Unlike their first two collaborations, which were multi-character narratives with lots of parallel action, TWBB is, in the editor's words, "a different kind of beast." 

From the start, Tichenor and P.T. Anderson approached the project like a horror film, employing "gothic shot framing and trying to build tension without a lot of cuts." This methodology even factored into the font that was used for the titles. "The cuts that are more nerve-wracking to me are the slower, quieter ones," Tichenor continued. "There's a big spotlight on, 'Now I'm changing perspective; now I'm showing you something else.'" 

He explained that because the character of Daniel Plainview was so off-putting and inhuman—in Tichenor's words, "a huge ass"—one of the challenges was eliciting empathy from the story. He and P.T. Anderson approached this problem through the character of H.W., Daniel's adopted son, whose perspective of the action they tried to bring into focus in every scene. "I kept asking Paul for more shots of H.W.," Tichenor said. "The same stuff is happening, but let's watch it through his point of view."

P.T. Anderson obliged, even adding scenes of the two bonding. (Here's a deleted one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjKU3FjwFs4&index=1&list=PLHOXPMs_WbCG6v1d3SEtvo5FT-tLL77sT&ab_channel=WildReactor); it's the first of the three clips.)

In contrast to quieter scenes, the editor feels as though "action functions more like [a] mosaic, where you have all the little pieces. When it's good, you get movement and flow."

Regarding the decision as to when to drop the sound out during the above set piece, Tichenor said that, beyond wanting to make sure that what had just happened (H.W. losing his hearing) was clear to the audience, it also was a way to bring the audience back into H.W.'s point of view and "keep that thread" of showing events through someone other than Daniel's eyes. 

Tichenor also talked about the strategy underlying the sequence's rhythm.

"It was not a fast movie," he said. "[In this sequence], we wanted to do set-up, set-up, static shots, then a long, handheld walk in...and from there, we wanted it to snap up." In fact, while cutting the seven-minute set piece, Tichenor found that there weren't as many angles as he wanted to use. As a result, he constructed some of them by punching in and out of different takes. "There are more angles than there were actual shots," he said. For example, when H.W. is blown back by the explosion, Tichenor made use of what he referred to as "...little repeated action things," i.e. quick cuts of the same footage, in order to add velocity to the sequence. 


Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tictacbk on June 17, 2017, 05:09:11 PM
https://theringer.com/anchorman-development-will-ferrell-bill-simmons-podcast-bef9b909da38 (https://theringer.com/anchorman-development-will-ferrell-bill-simmons-podcast-bef9b909da38)

Will Ferrell talking about how Anchorman came to be:

"Paul Thomas Anderson came and guest-wrote for a week on SNL," Ferrell said. "And he sat down with us and he was like, 'I read that August Blowout.' He's like, 'What if you guys wrote whatever you wanted to write, and I would shepherd it for you and kind of find out how to make it?' We were like, 'We'd do it. We'd do it in a heartbeat.' So that's when we wrote Anchorman. So he was one of the guardian angels even though I think the first incarnation of that was maybe a little too weird for Paul."

"The first version of Anchorman is basically the movie Alive, where the year is 1976, and we are flying to Philadelphia, and all the newsmen from around the country are flying in to have some big convention," he said. "Ron convinces the pilot that he knows how to fly the charter jet, and he immediately crash-lands it in the mountains. And it's just the story of them surviving and trying to get off the mountainside. They clipped a cargo plane, and the cargo plane crashed as well, close to them, and it was carrying only boxes of orangutans and Chinese throwing stars. So throughout the movie we're being stalked by orangutans who are killing, one by one, the team off with throwing stars. And Veronica Corningstone keeps saying things like, 'Guys, I know if we just head down we'll hit civilization.' And we keep telling her, 'Wrong.' She doesn't know what we're talking about. So that was the first version of the movie. In Paul's defense, that was a little too kooky."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: greenberryhill on July 24, 2017, 01:10:47 PM
Here are some videos from the Dylan Tichenor interview:



Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: FilmCell on November 29, 2017, 07:07:38 PM
Jennifer Lawrence gushing over Punch Drunk Love to Adam Sandler @26:03

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gold Trumpet on November 29, 2017, 10:20:28 PM
On his twitter, Jason Isbell said Magnolia was his favorite film.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Robyn on December 12, 2017, 06:41:38 AM
has this been posted?


Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lottery on December 12, 2017, 06:48:47 AM
Interesting. Franco himself was considered for The Master.

Quote"Well, I don't know if this is a funny story but it's a true story," he said. "Paul Thomas Anderson was getting ready to make the Master and he called me and we met. And we talked and we ended up meeting for coffee. We didn't talk about the Master but I met him to chat. And then he kept calling me and he wanted to talk and talk but I didn't know what he wanted to talk about because we'd always just kind of bulls— on the phone. So then when he started talking about the role he said 'Do you feel like you can do this?' And I said 'Yeah, totally. Look, I think you're like the best American director. I feel confident. I know I can do this.' And he said to me 'But I want this to scare you. I want this role, going on this journey to scare you.' And I was like 'Scare?! I know I can do it." Franco now had the laughing audience in the Stephen F. Austin Intercontinental ballroom in the palm of his hand. "And so, incredible movie, needless to say I didn't get the part. I guess I wasn't scared enough or something, or whatever reason I didn't get it. And then when I saw Joaquin in that movie I realized 'Oh, he wanted me to like lose my mind.' And so I guess that's just to say I usually don't get scared of roles.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on December 20, 2017, 06:17:19 PM
today i had lunch with the writer of Paul Thomas Anderson (Contemporary Film Directors) (https://www.amazon.com/Paul-Thomas-Anderson-Contemporary-Directors/dp/0252081854/). he also writes screenplays for Guy Madden (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866014). he's a college professor.

Punch-Drunk Love is his favorite. he asked me how i felt about Phantom Thread, then he looked at me with a face that really wanted to hear my answer. what do i tell people? "we all know PTA is good, it just depends on how you react to the movie." how could he even ask the question? because like many of you he was let down by IV. i found it interesting when he said he felt PTA was overwhelmed by Pynchon. he mentioned that PT isn't a book person, which made me smile. but i don't think it's a valid criticism against the movie. i don't think a movie has any obligation to be like a book. i told him i love IV and then we started talking about other things.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Robyn on December 21, 2017, 10:35:00 PM
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ono on December 21, 2017, 10:45:19 PM
And the flipside:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fCycZ6ftFo
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on January 22, 2018, 03:00:47 PM
This may have been quoted here before.  We've been busted, gentlemen.

AN OPEN LETTER OF THANKS TO THE MEN WHO TELL ME WHO PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON IS

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-of-thanks-to-the-men-who-tell-me-who-paul-thomas-anderson-is

Dear Men,

Thank you for telling me who critically acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is. Thank you for telling me he's your favorite director — you must really know your stuff. Here I was floating around with no clue who this guy is — that must be why I literally have a huge gaping hole in my brain: all the missing Paul Thomas Anderson information!

Thank you for making sure I realize I don't know anything at all about anything and especially not anything about your boy "P.T." I really am learning so much about film from you, a financial consultant at Goldman Sachs!

I love hearing your hot-take on how Punch-Drunk Love was the film that finally legitimized the career of actor Adam Sandler (star of The Waterboy and Hotel Transylvania 2). About time someone broke that glass ceiling!

I have zero opinions about anything in my teeny Paul Thomas Anderson-less head. Please, tell me more about Boogie Nights. Quote it for me! There wouldn't be any chance you have fun facts about Mark Wahlberg? I love that. Open your mouth and never close it until you have told me every single thing you know about Boogie Nights.

Thanks for stopping me from blabbering on with my "female" or "professional" perspective (I am a woman and work in the film industry but that's so random of me to mention I'll shut up). I like hearing what someone with a Blu-Ray DVD player and one idea for a screenplay about a guy who gets broken up with by a woman with big boobs but still smells her perfume everywhere he goes, like even his barrels of hand-rolled cigarettes start to smell like her, has to say about Boogie Nights.

I haven't seen Phantom Thread yet, so thank you for describing each scene in detail. I probably wouldn't have fully understood it on my own. I already forgot what a Paul Thomas Anderson is can you tell me again?

Thanks for still talking about Boogie Nights. Thank you for telling me how perfectly paced Paul Thomas Anderson's screenplay is. I feel like I'm comprehending words for the first time because it's coming from the mouth of someone whose mother once told him he's very artistic.

Thank you for showing me your Magnolia poster.

Thanks for giving me your list of Paul Thomas Anderson's films ranked best to worst according to you, owner of a Magnolia poster. Thank you for telling me that Boogie Nights is at the top of that list. Thank you for telling me Mark Wahlberg is your favorite actor because of Boogie Nights. Thank you for giving me more fun facts about Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights. I love that. Thanks for explaining the gritty sensitivity of Boogie Nights. Thank you for Boogie Nights. Thanks Boogie Nights. Boogie Nights Boogie Nights. Boogie Nights. Boogie Nights. Boogie Nights. Boogie. Nights. Boogie. Nights. Boogie. Nights. Boogie Nights. Boogie Nights. Boogie Nights. Boogie Nights. Boogie. Nights. Boogie. Nights. Boogie. Nights. Boogie. Nights. Boogie. Nights Boogie Nights Boogie Nights Boogie Nights Boogie Nights Boogie Nights Boogie Nights Boogie Nights Boogie Nights.

Sincerely,
Woman who's never seen Boogie Nights

[I actually have a female friend that could have written this--based on my PTA blather.  I better go check... ]
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ono on January 22, 2018, 04:27:41 PM
That chick needs a good dicking.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on January 22, 2018, 05:22:08 PM
I suggest not taking her home.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on January 22, 2018, 05:53:34 PM
Or inviting her here
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Punch Drunk Hate on January 22, 2018, 05:57:24 PM
That same site has this article about Tarantino male fans:  https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-oral-history-of-quentin-tarantino-as-told-to-me-by-men-ive-dated


The article could've been posted in that thread about P.T fans being mainly male.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on January 22, 2018, 05:59:26 PM
Quote from: Punch Drunk Hate on January 22, 2018, 05:57:24 PM

The article could've been posted in that thread about P.T fans being mainly male.

I thought exactly that after posting it.  Feel free, Moderator Gods, to relocate as necessary.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on February 08, 2018, 01:42:28 PM
Christopher Nolan:

And Paul's movie (Phantom Thread), my wife and I made the strange decision to take our kids to go see it and, ever since, every time I do anything vaguely what they would call dictatorial, it's, "Oh, Mr. Woodcock, are you a spy? Get out your gun. Do you have a gun?" I've been hearing that for weeks. And every time Emma cooks mushrooms now, there are huge hysterics. I've seen the film a couple of times, and seeing it in 70mm was such a pleasure. The thing I found out about it, as it opened up on its photo-chemical version, is that I was suddenly very aware of how the use of sound in the film is extraordinary. It's simple and gritty, and then extremely loud, like with the spreading of the butter on the toast. You feel it, up and down your spine. It's amazing.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on February 26, 2018, 10:01:45 PM
Paul has never acted in anything that's ever been released to the public, correct?  I mean, not counting "Magnolia"--which shouldn't really count.   Wonder if he has any acting chops whatsoever?

Paul Thomas Anderson Nearly Starred In 'Rachel Getting Married' With Anne Hathaway

http://www.indiewire.com/2014/11/paul-thomas-anderson-nearly-starred-in-rachel-getting-married-with-anne-hathaway-269942/

Tunde Adibempe:

Quote"Oh, and the other funny thing about it was later, Jonathan [Demme] was telling me: he said, 'Yeah, you know, originally we tried some people out for the part, and before you, P.T. Anderson was going to do it but he got caught up in a project he had to do.' I think the project ended up being something like 'There Will Be Blood,' or something [laughs]." Adebimpe said. "We just started talking about him and how much we both liked him and Jonathan was like 'yeah, that guy knows more about film than I do! I was [working] in the '70s and I was making some of the movies that he was talking around. I had no idea what was going on around me. He's like a living library of film.' It was like a double-edge thing where it's like, 'I'm glad I got this role, I don't know how I feel about that, though.' I don't know how I feel about [filling in for] P.T. Anderson."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Sleepless on February 27, 2018, 08:48:39 AM
http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=10087.msg332232#msg332232 (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=10087.msg332232#msg332232)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on February 27, 2018, 01:09:21 PM
Wow.  That version is much better.  Now I especially wish we could have seen him in that part.  Or, maybe we were better off with TWBB.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Robyn on February 27, 2018, 04:03:29 PM
this is a great story!
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: FilmCell on February 27, 2018, 05:13:17 PM
Jennifer Lawrence on Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread

http://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/jennifer-lawrence-shut-phantom-thread-off-paul-thomas-anderson-1201932932/ (http://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/jennifer-lawrence-shut-phantom-thread-off-paul-thomas-anderson-1201932932/)

"I got through about three minutes of it. I put in a good solid three. I'm sorry to anybody who loved that movie," Lawrence said. "I couldn't give that kind of time. It was three minutes and I was just [oof]."

"Is it just about clothes?" she continued. "Is [Reynolds Woodcock] kind of like a narcissistic sociopath and he's an artist so every girl falls in love him because he makes her feel bad about herself and that's the love story? I haven't seen it, so I don't know. I've been down that road, I know what that's like, I don't need to watch that movie [laughs]."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on February 27, 2018, 05:55:27 PM
Lawrence Lawrencing.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on February 27, 2018, 06:08:29 PM
Nobody ever said the court of J-Law is impartial.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on February 27, 2018, 08:47:49 PM
I'm 30 minutes into the conversation with Jennifer and Marc.  She hasn't mentioned "Thread" yet, but it's easy to predict she wouldn't be able to sit thru it:  She tried Transendental Meditation, "...for two minutes and said, 'Fuck. This!'"  So, yeah, Jen--Phantom Thread won't be for you...
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on February 27, 2018, 09:30:16 PM
oh you guys have been in the mood where you're not in the mood for a movie
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on February 27, 2018, 09:38:35 PM
Sure, especially with screeners.  But she comes off in the interview like she wouldn't have a lot of patience for anything.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on February 27, 2018, 09:57:03 PM
what she's saying is human casual and it's people's reactions that are the funny thing. i haven't been following the public personality of Jennifer Lawless
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: FilmCell on February 28, 2018, 07:52:43 AM
She's a girl whose a high school dropout from Kentucky that got famous from The Hunger Games. Needless to say, Phantom Thread isn't for her. Nor is any PTA film outside of maybe Boogie Nights.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on February 28, 2018, 07:58:57 AM
Quote from: FilmCell on February 28, 2018, 07:52:43 AM
She's a girl whose a high school dropout from Kentucky that got famous from The Hunger Games. Needless to say, Phantom Thread isn't for her. Nor is any PTA film outside of maybe Boogie Nights.

Oh, that's reductive. The thing is she likes PTA. She even said in an interview that he's her favorite director. She talked about Punch Drunk Love with Adam Sandler. Why does she complain about Phantom Thread being "silent", etc...well, maybe she's annoyed that she hasn't worked with him yet, or she's high in pretending she's a "casual" viewer. Remember that she created a whole trend where people thought they were quirky when they talked about how much they liked to eat.

Oh. And I'm pretty sure the first minutes of mother! are mostly silent, but whatever...

Also: Daronofsky is probably Woodckier than Woodcock. PTSD.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on February 28, 2018, 10:10:22 AM
Quote from: FilmCell on February 28, 2018, 07:52:43 AM
She's a girl whose a high school dropout from Kentucky that got famous from The Hunger Games. Needless to say, Phantom Thread isn't for her. Nor is any PTA film outside of maybe Boogie Nights.

you're a boy.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gold Trumpet on February 28, 2018, 10:28:28 AM
She's a great actress but it seems Phantom Thread reminded her of uncomfortable past situations with men and just wasn't for her. This isn't a big deal.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Reel on February 28, 2018, 10:40:20 AM
I don't have enough fingers to count the English period dramas I don't want to sit through
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on February 28, 2018, 01:19:47 PM
there are fuller and lighter perspectives being presented as well, i want to appreciate those, that's what i'm currently doing.

for preventive measures toward not reengaging my defense, i'd like to summarize my point of contention: she isn't being a bad or stupid person by saying what she said, she's being a normal person with feelings related to who she is. my basic philosophy is it's okay for people to be themselves. but it's not as easy as all that and one can say it but living it is another thing. everything about this: no big deal.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ©brad on February 28, 2018, 02:16:24 PM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on February 28, 2018, 10:28:28 AM
She's a great actress but it seems Phantom Thread reminded her of uncomfortable past situations with men and just wasn't for her. This isn't a big deal.

Thank you my friend. There are a few hot takes in this thread that need to be extinguished quick-like.

Her critique is one echoed by quite a few critics and it's a perfectly valid response, even if you disagree.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Fuzzy Dunlop on February 28, 2018, 02:49:37 PM
Quote from: FilmCell on February 28, 2018, 07:52:43 AM
She's a girl whose a high school dropout

*who's. source: middle school
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: FilmCell on February 28, 2018, 03:41:18 PM
I wonder if she can make it past 3 minutes of films by Bergman, Bresson or Ozu?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on February 28, 2018, 03:56:00 PM
yes
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: FilmCell on February 28, 2018, 06:09:22 PM
Quote from: ©brad on February 28, 2018, 02:16:24 PM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on February 28, 2018, 10:28:28 AM
She's a great actress but it seems Phantom Thread reminded her of uncomfortable past situations with men and just wasn't for her. This isn't a big deal.

Thank you my friend. There are a few hot takes in this thread that need to be extinguished quick-like.

Her critique is one echoed by quite a few critics and it's a perfectly valid response, even if you disagree.

A few critics only watched 3 minutes of Phantom Thread and then wrote sweeping, generalizing reviews? Didn't know that. How is NOT watching a movie and then critiquing it for being problematic towards women a "perfectly valid response?" Enlighten us.

Ironically, if Ms. Lawrence would've pulled her head away from binge watching episodes of Keeping Up With the Kardashians and watched the film, she'd see that the characters played by both Vicky Krieps and Leslie Manville are strong, powerful women who eventually go toe-to-toe with Daniel Day Lewis and essentially control him. But, the good news is, now that she's insulted him, Paul won't hire this dull redneck in one of his films and we'll get the twin joys of never having her spoil a PTA picture with her generic performances AND get more discoveries like Katherine Waterston and Vicky Krieps! If he's one of her favorite directors, this wasn't exactly a smart way of ensuring a future collaboration between the two. If this is how she handles her career, no wonder all of her non-ensemble starring roles(Joy, Serena, Passengers, mother! and now Red Sparrow) have all been clunkers! She probably thought mother! was genius and edgy and bragged to Amy Schumer about how "I'm finally gonna be in one of those movies that hipsters who belittle me will watch!" But, when it didn't get the awards recognition she thought it deserved, she's decided to lash out at films like Phantom Thread that confuse her itty bitty brain and give her another nauseating, rehearsed way to demonstrate how much of a "normal person I am" for not liking "films" and only loving "movies."

Hey, Jennifer, stop sending nudes to overweight producers and start watching art films past the 3 minute mark. Your career will thank you. I don't know what mixture of hay and raccoon droppings were mixed into your baby formula back in Kentucky but it must've stunted your mental growth. Ultimately, it's not her fault. Her parents, who are probably second cousins, must've forgotten to teach her how to be a professional in between swigs from their jug of moonshine, five course smorgasbords of roadkill possum with all the fixin's under that kerosene lantern hanging from the ceiling by that wire hanger they called a chandelier back in Kentucky. Luckily for us, her 15 minutes will be over soon!
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gold Trumpet on February 28, 2018, 06:30:07 PM
Looking at the post above and trying to weed my way through all the unintelligible, I will pretend to be someone who represents the Noah Baumbach fan club and get pissy with Paul Thomas Anderson because Bill Simmons name dropped every film of Baumbach he could in his interview with PTA and Mr. Fucking Anderson couldn't be bothered to say he has watched any of the films mentioned. All masterpieces! This leads me to believe Mr. Anderson is wasting his time watching too many Adam Sandler movies, pontificating on how Big Daddy could somehow be the masterpiece of all those flicks, and even watch a generally forgettable film like Girls Trip and finding his next muse when he could be watching more great cinema like what Noah Baumbach produces all the time. I mean, seriously...

Or I should have probably just ignored the last post and let it hang out to dry like the dirty laundry it is.

I love this site but man, some of these newbies are lowering the bar big time here from what great members we had in the past.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: FilmCell on February 28, 2018, 06:39:24 PM
PTA said he loved The Meyerowitz Stories and he never said, "I couldn't get through 3 minutes of it but it must just be about some problematic trend in our society ..." Even when he wished David Fincher testicular cancer for all of his jokes about it in Fight Club he never said that it was a result of never giving the movie the time of day.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on February 28, 2018, 07:17:12 PM
Dude, who gives a fuck? People are allowed to dismiss whatever they please, whenever they please, no matter how rabidly we (you) may feel otherwise. The movie's been received, in general, more rapturously than I could have anticipated, so what if Jennifer Lawrence didn't immediately vibe with it? 

It's allowed.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: FilmCell on February 28, 2018, 07:23:44 PM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on February 28, 2018, 06:30:07 PM
Looking at the post above and trying to weed my way through all the unintelligible, I will pretend to be someone who represents the Noah Baumbach fan club and get pissy with Paul Thomas Anderson because Bill Simmons name dropped every film of Baumbach he could in his interview with PTA and Mr. Fucking Anderson couldn't be bothered to say he has watched any of the films mentioned. All masterpieces! This leads me to believe Mr. Anderson is wasting his time watching too many Adam Sandler movies, pontificating on how Big Daddy could somehow be the masterpiece of all those flicks, and even watch a generally forgettable film like Girls Trip and finding his next muse when he could be watching more great cinema like what Noah Baumbach produces all the time. I mean, seriously...

Or I should have probably just ignored the last post and let it hang out to dry like the dirty laundry it is.

I love this site but man, some of these newbies are lowering the bar big time here from what great members we had in the past.

Oh and don't even get me started on ghetto ass Tiffany Haddish ...
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on February 28, 2018, 07:35:21 PM
Quote from: FilmCell on February 28, 2018, 06:09:22 PM
she'd see that the characters played by both Vicky Krieps and Leslie Manville are strong, powerful women who eventually go toe-to-toe with Daniel Day Lewis and essentially control him.

the theory the movie supports she's applying to practice, which we're all hoping you can later do when you learn more about women and other types of people.

cultural elitism is so narrow minded it's sometimes exhausting to hear, and always what it illuminates is a narrow perspective. a tunnel perspective. you're talking to a crowd of movie people is a thing. we can spot a tunnel perspective related to this medium from a mile away.

Quote from: FilmCell on February 28, 2018, 07:23:44 PM
Oh and don't even get me started on ghetto ass Tiffany Haddish ...

that's a truly ugly thing to say, in addition to other ugly things you've said already. it's not broadening our perspectives and it's unpleasant to hear.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: polkablues on February 28, 2018, 08:27:09 PM
Quote from: FilmCell on February 28, 2018, 07:23:44 PM
Oh and don't even get me started on ghetto ass Tiffany Haddish ...

Bad opinions and ill-conceived arguments will always find safe harbor at Xixax, but shit like this has absolutely no place here.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on February 28, 2018, 08:42:55 PM
^^ if that isn't marquee worthy then I don't know what is.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Fuzzy Dunlop on February 28, 2018, 10:13:29 PM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on February 28, 2018, 06:30:07 PM
some of these newbies are lowering the bar big time here from what great members we had in the past.

I'm liking some of the new additions, but there are always a few really bad ones that pop up when there's an influx of new members...

Pretty much every post this guy has made so far has been dogshit. If this is the type of guy that some people imagine when they think of PTA fans, I can understand why we have a bad rep. It's really unfortunate.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Punch Drunk Hate on February 28, 2018, 11:15:18 PM
FilmCell, I hope you start educating yourself on understanding people before making such a bigoted comment. That kind of crap belongs nowhere on this forum and you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Quote from: Fuzzy Dunlop on February 28, 2018, 10:13:29 PM
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on February 28, 2018, 06:30:07 PM
some of these newbies are lowering the bar big time here from what great members we had in the past.

I'm liking some of the new additions, but there are always a few really bad ones that pop up when there's an influx of new members...

Pretty much every post this guy has made so far has been dogshit. If this is the type of guy that some people imagine when they think of PTA fans, I can understand why we have a bad rep. It's really unfortunate.

I'm disheartented that such a person would come to resemble our fanbase. It's not hard to get concern when I made a thread about our demographic because select people think we acted in the manner of the poster.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on March 01, 2018, 01:15:44 AM
The issue with the Jennifer Lawrence situation is she has a Best Picture vote and doesn't even give the film a chance. Anyone who judges a film on three minutes shouldn't get to vote. 99% of the Academy does this which is one of primary reasons why it's all bullshit, but just because other people are pulling that bullshit doesn't excuse Jennifer Lawrence. She deserves any flack she gets for this. As a fellow artist she should realize how disrespectful it is to publicly judge a full work of art based on a very small sample of it. She probably would not be happy if PTA watched one scene from mother! and then went off about how she should win the Razzie. If she doesn't like the movie, that's her right, but she shouldn't vote for Best Picture without watching it and she doesn't need to bash it publicly.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on March 01, 2018, 02:24:49 AM
i think he's the guy who said "They're still giving Oscars to little Ronnie Howard with Beautiful Mind (Laughs in the audience)" and there's no crying in baseball. i'm 100% positive he's not crying.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Just Withnail on March 01, 2018, 05:44:06 AM
Quote from: FilmCell on February 28, 2018, 06:09:22 PM
A few critics only watched 3 minutes of Phantom Thread and then wrote sweeping, generalizing reviews? Didn't know that. How is NOT watching a movie and then critiquing it for being problematic towards women a "perfectly valid response?" Enlighten us.

Ironically, if Ms. Lawrence would've pulled her head away from binge watching episodes of Keeping Up With the Kardashians and watched the film, she'd see that the characters played by both Vicky Krieps and Leslie Manville are strong, powerful women who eventually go toe-to-toe with Daniel Day Lewis and essentially control him. But, the good news is, now that she's insulted him, Paul won't hire this dull redneck in one of his films and we'll get the twin joys of never having her spoil a PTA picture with her generic performances AND get more discoveries like Katherine Waterston and Vicky Krieps! If he's one of her favorite directors, this wasn't exactly a smart way of ensuring a future collaboration between the two. If this is how she handles her career, no wonder all of her non-ensemble starring roles(Joy, Serena, Passengers, mother! and now Red Sparrow) have all been clunkers! She probably thought mother! was genius and edgy and bragged to Amy Schumer about how "I'm finally gonna be in one of those movies that hipsters who belittle me will watch!" But, when it didn't get the awards recognition she thought it deserved, she's decided to lash out at films like Phantom Thread that confuse her itty bitty brain and give her another nauseating, rehearsed way to demonstrate how much of a "normal person I am" for not liking "films" and only loving "movies."

Hey, Jennifer, stop sending nudes to overweight producers and start watching art films past the 3 minute mark. Your career will thank you. I don't know what mixture of hay and raccoon droppings were mixed into your baby formula back in Kentucky but it must've stunted your mental growth. Ultimately, it's not her fault. Her parents, who are probably second cousins, must've forgotten to teach her how to be a professional in between swigs from their jug of moonshine, five course smorgasbords of roadkill possum with all the fixin's under that kerosene lantern hanging from the ceiling by that wire hanger they called a chandelier back in Kentucky. Luckily for us, her 15 minutes will be over soon!


You have a very ugly soul, mister, and you don't seem to realize that you reveal it in your writing. Your words say nothing about their subject and very much about you.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on March 01, 2018, 08:02:16 AM
If it wasn't clear from Polka's post, FilmCell was banned yesterday.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: axxonn on March 01, 2018, 09:32:21 AM
Quote from: jviness02 on March 01, 2018, 01:15:44 AM
The issue with the Jennifer Lawrence situation is she has a Best Picture vote and doesn't even give the film a chance. Anyone who judges a film on three minutes shouldn't get to vote. 99% of the Academy does this which is one of primary reasons why it's all bullshit, but just because other people are pulling that bullshit doesn't excuse Jennifer Lawrence. She deserves any flack she gets for this. As a fellow artist she should realize how disrespectful it is to publicly judge a full work of art based on a very small sample of it. She probably would not be happy if PTA watched one scene from mother! and then went off about how she should win the Razzie. If she doesn't like the movie, that's her right, but she shouldn't vote for Best Picture without watching it and she doesn't need to bash it publicly.

Not exactly surprising though, this is how I always imagined the Academy watching process went down. Explains a lot of the past winners ;)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on March 01, 2018, 10:11:20 AM
Quote from: axxonn on March 01, 2018, 09:32:21 AM
Quote from: jviness02 on March 01, 2018, 01:15:44 AM
The issue with the Jennifer Lawrence situation is she has a Best Picture vote and doesn't even give the film a chance. Anyone who judges a film on three minutes shouldn't get to vote. 99% of the Academy does this which is one of primary reasons why it's all bullshit, but just because other people are pulling that bullshit doesn't excuse Jennifer Lawrence. She deserves any flack she gets for this. As a fellow artist she should realize how disrespectful it is to publicly judge a full work of art based on a very small sample of it. She probably would not be happy if PTA watched one scene from mother! and then went off about how she should win the Razzie. If she doesn't like the movie, that's her right, but she shouldn't vote for Best Picture without watching it and she doesn't need to bash it publicly.

Not exactly surprising though, this is how I always imagined the Academy watching process went down. Explains a lot of the past winners ;)

Oh, for sure.  Which is why it's all bullshit. I personally know three Academy members who refuse to watch Get Out. It's so fucking stupid.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on March 01, 2018, 11:19:57 AM
Quote from: jviness02 on March 01, 2018, 10:11:20 AM
Oh, for sure.  Which is why it's all bullshit. I personally know three Academy members who refuse to watch Get Out. It's so fucking stupid.


Not to mention the members that vote a 'party line' (eg, voting for the films their company released, etc), or that give their ballot to someone else to fill out, or vote for the film they 'heard' is deserving...
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Gold Trumpet on March 01, 2018, 01:27:51 PM
Quote from: jviness02 on March 01, 2018, 01:15:44 AM
The issue with the Jennifer Lawrence situation is she has a Best Picture vote and doesn't even give the film a chance. Anyone who judges a film on three minutes shouldn't get to vote. 99% of the Academy does this which is one of primary reasons why it's all bullshit, but just because other people are pulling that bullshit doesn't excuse Jennifer Lawrence. She deserves any flack she gets for this. As a fellow artist she should realize how disrespectful it is to publicly judge a full work of art based on a very small sample of it. She probably would not be happy if PTA watched one scene from mother! and then went off about how she should win the Razzie. If she doesn't like the movie, that's her right, but she shouldn't vote for Best Picture without watching it and she doesn't need to bash it publicly.

You hit a lot of nails on the head. Most don't really watch many of the films yet vote. The Academy is bullshit but really, all award shows are. When I was a kid, I could name every Best Picture winner for every year. Now I haven't watched the Oscars in over 10 years.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on March 01, 2018, 10:36:01 PM
In keeping with this recent discussion of the Oscars:

The surprising fact behind how much it costs to win an Oscar
The glitziest Academy Awards actually cost the least, one analysis shows; predicts wins for "Phantom Thread" director and "The Post"

https://moneyish.com/ish/the-surprising-fact-behind-how-much-it-costs-to-win-an-oscar/
Quote
The big caveat to Giffgaff's analysis is that it doesn't necessarily take into account a big part of the Oscar nomination and award process: lobbying. The run-up to the March 4 ceremony, involves months of campaigning that includes cushy junkets (AKA "value-added opportunities") for Academy voters, though these perks are restricted as the big night grows near.

Giffgaff however is so confident with its analysis that it's even predicting winners in select categories for Sunday night. Its pick include Steven Spielberg's "The Post," which cost $50 million to make, for Best Motion Picture, and "Phantom Thread" auteur Paul Thomas Anderson for best director.

Kind of a Moneyball approach to predicting Oscar wins. 
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Punch Drunk Hate on March 23, 2018, 06:57:54 AM



Kubrick comparison starts at 3:31.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Reel on March 23, 2018, 12:24:51 PM
It's a lot less awkward to watch two people in there at the same time, they should make it a trend
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Fuzzy Dunlop on March 27, 2018, 05:42:14 PM
There's a scene in the pilot episode of HBO's Barry that heavily features a version of Linda's A-to-Z Pharmacy breakdown.

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lewton on March 27, 2018, 09:52:24 PM
Quote from: Fuzzy Dunlop on March 27, 2018, 05:42:14 PM
There's a scene in the pilot episode of HBO's Barry that heavily features a version of Linda's A-to-Z Pharmacy breakdown.

I liked the series premiere. There's a PTA vibe elsewhere in the episode, too, but maybe it's a bit low-key outside of the example you just mentioned.

I mean, among other things, Barry Block (Hader) reminded me of Barry Egan.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Robyn on March 30, 2018, 09:07:45 AM
I wanted to hear what Johnny Greenwood has said about PTA, and found this. don't know if it has been posted here yet.

https://www.stereogum.com/1983217/jonny-greenwood-and-paul-thomas-anderson-seem-to-have-a-delightful-working-relationship/news/

Quote"He said, 'Either you come and you're dressed like an idiot, and that'd be brilliant. Or you come and you have to say something on stage, which would also be brilliant. So win-win for me,'" Greenwood said in a recent interview. "It's a kind of abuse, really, the way he treats me."

QuoteWhat makes them such a good match?

"Like any good long-term relationship, I'd say mutual respect and date nights," says Anderson.

"He has faith in me and he likes making fun of me," says Greenwood. "I think they're the two prongs of the perfect relationship, really."

Quote"He won't push gently into something that doesn't come naturally. He needs to find a legitimate way in to something rather than just juke-boxing. The music he came up with is just deeply felt — by him, clearly. I don't know why some people can do it and others can't, but he can access something inside him and get it to come out though his fingers into his instruments. It's weird. He can even make Toca Band on his phone sound like something spectacular and moving."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on April 04, 2018, 04:52:44 PM
Marc Maron has an odd take on PTA during his conversation with Neil Patrick Harris this week.  I'm not sure I agree, and don't quite understand why Marc came to this particular conclusion.


[Don't know why this link won't start at 1:19:38--but that's the start of the tangent.  Marc asks him about Ricky Jay.]



The PTA segment (begins at 1:20:47):

Quote
MM: Have you ever talked to him? Paul Thomas Anderson?
NPH: No. I just read a whole article about him...
MM: He's a very goofy guy.
NPH: Really?
MM:  He grew up in the Valley... His dad was a whacky TV host from Cleveland or something...
NPH: That's right...
MM: And his dad and Tim Conway were best friends...
NPH:  No way...!
MM:  Yeah.  Like, I thought he was, like, some Dark Genius... He comes over here, he's just...goofy dude from the Valley.  And it's very entertaining to talk to him....
NPH:  So, what is a goofy dude like that...
MM:  Where does he get that stuff?  Why is he so fuckin'...  Maybe that's just his public persona--but he's obviously an incredible filmmaker.
NPH:  Phantom Thread?!
MM: He's got reall balls with the filmmaking. Like, he's not afraid of what's going to come at him.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: csage97 on April 04, 2018, 05:12:17 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on April 04, 2018, 04:52:44 PM
Marc Maron has an odd take on PTA during his conversation with Neil Patrick Harris this week.  I'm not sure I agree, and don't quite understand why Marc came to this particular conclusion.


[Don't know why this link won't start at 1:19:38--but that's the start of the tangent.  Marc asks him about Ricky Jay.]



The PTA segment (begins at 1:20:47):

Quote
MM: Have you ever talked to him? Paul Thomas Anderson?
NPH: No. I just read a whole article about him...
MM: He's a very goofy guy.
NPH: Really?
MM:  He grew up in the Valley... His dad was a whacky TV host from Cleveland or something...
NPH: That's right...
MM: And his dad and Tim Conway were best friends...
NPH:  No way...!
MM:  Yeah.  Like, I thought he was, like, some Dark Genius... He comes over here, he's just...goofy dude from the Valley.  And it's very entertaining to talk to him....
NPH:  So, what is a goofy dude like that...
MM:  Where does he get that stuff?  Why is he so fuckin'...  Maybe that's just his public persona--but he's obviously an incredible filmmaker.
NPH:  Phantom Thread?!
MM: He's got reall balls with the filmmaking. Like, he's not afraid of what's going to come at him.

I think it's that Marc thought PTA would be very serious and less conversational than he is. PTA's films give off a sense of the literary (especially after The Master and IV, when Marc had him on the podcast) and can be narratively and "intellectually" challenging with a great level of craft, I suppose, so he possibly expected a person with a challenging intellect and wariness about the world.

Not that PTA isn't intelligent or knowledgeable, but he is very relatable, conversational, loves to joke, isn't serious all the time, loves funny movies, etc., so that's what I think Marc means by "goofy" (though goofy is a bit hyperbolic). I wouldn't really describe PTA as goofy myself, but I think it's Marc's way of saying that PTA's a lot more down to earth and funnier than expected.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on April 04, 2018, 06:08:02 PM
if one wants to learn about Tim Conway, he wrote and starred in Paul Bartel's The Longshot (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091430/), and right there'll you'll learn about humor and characters and everything else. Robby Müller was the dp.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lewton on April 05, 2018, 11:58:21 PM
I remember Amy Adams mentioning a similar experience. I think she had been expecting someone dour and "very, very serious" (quoting Dodd there, not Adams).

Still, I think Marc Maron's bafflement is kind of baffling. People are complicated. It doesn't seem that surprising to me that a serious filmmaker can also manage to be a down to earth fellow.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on April 20, 2018, 05:20:15 PM
A nice interview with William H Macy over at The Ringer.


https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/4/20/17258738/william-h-macy-career-life-fargo-boogie-nights-shameless


Quote
Shortly after, you did Boogie Nights. How the hell did that movie get made?


More to the point: How did it get made with the subject matter? I mean, you know, a loving look at the porn industry. Imagine that. Paul had some juice going into this and it was the heyday of indies, so you could make money off an independent film. It was a good bet, but the first draft of the script that I read was X-rated. It was really graphic. It had a lot of sex in it. I wrote my agents and said, "Hold on. Am I being punked? Is this real?" And they said, "Yeah, he wants to meet with you." So I watched Hard Eight.


It's a good movie.


Oh my God, it's great. Paul is a high-energy guy—really kind, really supportive, and fun. He likes to joke around. He has an indefatigable knowledge of film. He's seen every movie ever made. You feel confidence with him, and that's the biggest thing as an actor. I want to feel confident that the director is going to bring us home and do it with as little bloodletting as possible. As I've gotten older, I get cranky when we go over 12 hours. I want to know why. Is this planned and you didn't tell anyone? Who screwed up?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tdog on April 22, 2018, 07:19:33 PM
Joaquin Phoenix talking about PTA in a recent long form interview with Collider
http://collider.com/joaquin-phoenix-interview-paul-thomas-anderson-the-joker/#christopher-nolan

I know I'm almost out of time with you, so I have to ask you, I'm a huge fan, like everyone, of your collaborations with Paul [Thomas Anderson]. I'm just curious, what has it been like for you working with him? Do you foresee yourself working with him again in the future?

PHOENIX: He's like someone that came, brought me this movie at this time in my career that it just couldn't have been more perfect timing for me. I feel like I learned, so much of the experience taught me so much, and also working with Phillip [Seymour Hoffman], there's just something so magical about that film to me, the experience of making that movie. I feel strongly about Paul. I have so much love and respect for him as a man and as a creative person. I feel like I don't know, it's just one of those moments where I wonder what kind of actor I'd be without that experience, without having worked with him. I hope that we'll work together again. I don't know. If I turn around in 20 years and I say I got to work with Paul twice, that's ... You know what I mean?

Totally.

PHOENIX: Fucking great. Yeah, of course, I'm fucking greedy. I would like to do it more, but if that's all I got, I feel very fortunate to have had that experience.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on April 22, 2018, 10:09:16 PM
Please God let them team up again.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Punch Drunk Hate on May 20, 2018, 07:38:52 PM


Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on May 20, 2018, 09:26:24 PM
Leon Vitali Talks About Stanley Kubrick and 'Filmworker' at Nuart Theatre
QuoteVitali did share stories about Kubrick which involved him calling Vitali a certain word which has a broader meaning in England and Scotland but a simpler one in America as many find it extremely offensive (hint: it begins wit a c and ends with a t), and he also talked about the pie fight scene which was taken out of "Dr. Strangeglove" because they just felt it would have been a terrible way to end the movie. In terms of filmmakers today who Vitali considers in Kubrick's league, he said he really admires Paul Thomas Anderson, Guillermo Del Toro because he gets back to the fairy tale part of the storytelling, and Sean Baker who directed "The Florida Project." In terms of his favorite Kubrick movie, he said if you put a gun to his head he would have to say it is "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Source (https://theultimaterabbit.com/2018/05/21/leon-vitali-talks-about-stanley-kubrick-and-filmworker-at-nuart-theatre/)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Punch Drunk Hate on August 26, 2018, 11:08:56 AM
Quote from: John Carpenter

"I really like Paul Thomas Anderson a lot. I think he's really good. Damn, is he good! Amazingly good! He really has command of narrative. Visual narrative. Really interesting. That's one example. I love his films. Even though I don't have any connection with what's going on on the screen, he makes me."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on August 26, 2018, 05:18:11 PM
Goddamn, imagine hearing John fucking Carpenter sing your praises?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on September 12, 2018, 12:53:04 PM
PTA and John C. Reily speak a little more about the improvs that inspired Reily's character in Magnolia. PTA also credits Reily with figuring out how TWBB would end.

https://www.gq.com/story/john-c-reilly-profile
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ono on September 13, 2018, 11:08:22 AM
QuoteThey had fun. "On the way to Phil's house," Reilly said, dropping into his dim, thick cop voice, "I would be like, 'Apparently'—and I had the Oakleys on—'this individual thinks they can play their music however loud they want. Well, I got news for them. There's a thing called the law.' " They'd improvise, Anderson catching it all on tape. The footage would eventually yield Reilly's lonely officer in Magnolia, but at the time, the exercise scratched a new itch. He was improvising seriously, but it was also deeply, stupidly, pee-your-pants hilarious, Hoffman faking a heart attack before sprinting away cursing. "It was really, really, really, really, really, really fun," Anderson recalled.

Awesome.  Wish that would turn up someday.

I hate that throwaway line about CMBB though. Why not go into more detail about that?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on September 16, 2018, 11:32:11 PM
Maya briefly discusses her "husband" in NY Times Magazine Interview.


Quote
Rudolph's first child with the director Paul Thomas Anderson was born in 2005, an event she credits with making her a more productive cast member, because of its freezing effect on her personal life. Previously unmissable activities, like "socializing, and going out for" — she spilled into a Valley Girl shriek — "draaanks!" suddenly revealed themselves to be nonessential. But even with her newfound focus and an internal clock recalibrated for the topsy-turvy "S.N.L." night-owl schedule, the pace was grueling for a new parent. Sometimes, on writing nights, Rudolph would put her toddler to bed, head to work until "between 6 and 9 in the morning" and come home just as she awoke. Rudolph left the show in November 2007, when her daughter was 2.


"It was too hard," she said. "And nobody else understands or cares, when they don't have kids. They're like: 'Oh, that's cool!' " she said, turning away with a distracted nod. " 'What are you guys doing tonight?' They're like, 'We're going to see Justin Timberlake because Andy's doing "Dick in a Box" with him! What are you doing?' And I was like" — Rudolph affected the faraway stare of a revenant — " 'My daughter's sick. I'm going home.' "


Members of the public familiar with the careers of Rudolph and Anderson react to their long-term relationship in one of two ways: Either they are surprised to learn that Rudolph and Anderson have been a couple since 2001 or they knew that but are surprised to remember it. Perhaps it's that a high-minded film auteur would not seem to possess a wacky enough personality to pair with a woman who earned a living parodying Beyoncé from Destiny's Child as "Britanica" from "Gemini's Twin"; perhaps it's that Maya Rudolph is not Daniel Day-Lewis. Often people's response to the couple takes the form of jocular fetishization, as when New York Magazine's The Cut published a short opinion piece titled "Paul Thomas Anderson and Maya Rudolph Are the Greatest Celebrity Couple," affectionately citing, as a piece of evidence, an unsmiling candid paparazzi photo of them walking side by side. There have been instances, however, when the teasing has overreached and Rudolph has, like her parents, found her interracial relationship the object of prurient interest. She recalled a comedy writer who told her that her and Anderson's children were "quadroons or octoroons" — "because people think that being aggressive is funny, I guess."


Although they are not married, Rudolph refers to Anderson as "my husband" in conversation, as when a maître d' told her that a man once introduced himself to the restaurant's staff as "the unofficial mayor of the Valley" and Rudolph instantly blurted, "I hope it wasn't my husband." She said it felt "ooky" to keep referring to her long-term partner as her "boyfriend" after the birth of their daughter (they now have four children); she likes "husband" because "people know what that means. It means he's the father of my child, and I live with him, and we are a couple, and we are not going anywhere."


Full Source (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/magazine/maya-rudolph-snl-amazon-forever.html)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Punch Drunk Hate on October 01, 2018, 11:27:55 PM
Quote from: Melora WaltersBefore production began, however, she had to show the script to a director she's worked with before on films such as "Boogie Nights," "Magnolia," "The Master" and others: Paul Thomas Anderson.

"I call it the 'Papal Blessing,'" Walters said. "He, to me, is our best filmmaker. If Paul says go for it, then I go for it."


Full Article (https://www.summitdaily.com/explore-summit/breckenridge-film-festival-screens-world-premiere-of-waterlily-jaguar-directorial-debut-of-melora-walters/)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on October 12, 2018, 02:39:11 PM
Sissy Spacek Reveals Paul Thomas Anderson Convinced Her To Star In Andy Samberg's 'Hot Rod' (https://theplaylist.net/sissy-spacek-pta-hot-rod-20181012/)

Quote"My husband, Jack, had worked on 'There Will Be Blood' with Paul Thomas Anderson, and Paul called him to say, 'This is not a film that Sissy would ordinarily do, but they want to offer it to you, and they know you'll never see the script unless we get to you. These guys are great — you should do it.' And when Paul Thomas Anderson talks, you listen! So that's why I did it, and now I'm friends with all these young, cool guys with crazy names like Akiva, Jorma, and Andy," reveals Spacek.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Fuzzy Dunlop on October 13, 2018, 10:04:17 PM
I'VE BEEN DRINKIN GREEN TEA ALL GOD DAMN DAY
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on October 18, 2018, 04:42:32 PM
Jason Blum Talks [About] Why 'There Will Be Blood' Is The Best Film In Two Decades (https://theplaylist.net/jason-blum-weinstein-paul-thomas-anderson-20181018/)

QuoteBlum is asked who his favorite filmmaker of all time is. Not all that shocking given the director's pedigree, the producer says it's none other than Paul Thomas Anderson. "His movies are so precise. He can make a movie about pretty much anything and the movies seem flawless to me: the performance, the production, every aspect of the filmmaking is so good. 'There Will Be Blood' is probably my favorite movie in the last 20 years," revealed Blum.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Yes on October 22, 2018, 07:14:04 PM
Jonah Hill says PTA saw an early cut of "Mid90s"

QuoteOther industry friends gave more constructive criticism, including Miller and Spike Jonze. Paul Thomas Anderson watched an early cut of the film and sent Hill a text message so positive that he framed it for his office. (He won't say what the text said because he doesn't want to "sound like a douchebag.")

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-jonah-hill-mid90s-20181020-story.html
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on October 25, 2018, 11:10:43 PM
Paul Dano appeared with Terry Gross on FRESH AIR on Oct 24, 2018.   

Here is a pertinent excerpt:

Quote
GROSS: You were directed at age 22 by one of the greatest directors of our time, Paul Thomas Anderson. Were there things you learned from him about directing, about how to work with actors that you've tried to carry through in the rest of your acting career and now in your first-time directorial effort?

DANO: Yeah. Paul, I think, has a lot of love. I think he loves his actors and his crew. He has an incredible eye for detail. I think it's definitely been important for me having - wanting to have been a filmmaker for a long time to have seen directors like this go to work, meaning to see them wait for the oil drip to be right even though time and money is, you know, burning. I remember one time in a costume fitting, you know, him noticing something in the stitching of the tie that nobody else would have noticed. You know, just sort of the focus, the care and the integrity. And it's also important when you see somebody like him able to enjoy their work and have a moment of fun probably too. But I absolutely loved working with him. And frankly, many of the directors I've worked with, I think the common theme is really hard work.

Transcript & Link
(http://www.wunc.org/post/paul-dano-wildlife-and-different-anxieties-acting-and-directing#stream/0)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on October 25, 2018, 11:45:17 PM
'The Amaranth': How Pushy Octagenarians and Paul Thomas Anderson Inspired An Unsettling Tale
QuoteNFS: Albert, you have worked with Paul Thomas Anderson on a number different of projects, and you thank him in the credits of this film. Based on your work with him, did you take any specific lessons learned or any advice he's given you over the years into this particular project?

Chi: Oh yeah, without question, everything. I'm serious. I'm totally dead serious. My wife, Jen, jokes about it all the time. Paul and I had a working relationship that was pretty close for a long time. He's my mentor, I'm his apprentice, so there's no version of me making anything artistic at this point that doesn't have its roots from Paul's life and his canon of work, and his philosophies about things. Anything that I do, The Amaranth or anything else, I know at some point, I'll be in the room with Paul, and I'll have to own up for it, and I want to be able to stand up for it.

Beyond that, my favorite thing to do is to steal stuff I know he'll notice, put it in there, and then talk it about it with him. It's almost like asking permission to steal the car. I like that. I think he likes it, too. In fact, I know he does because he's one of those guys, like if he gives you shit, you know you're in a good place. If he just ignores you, that's when you have a problem. He is constantly giving me shit.
Link (https://nofilmschool.com/2018/10/amaranth-interview)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: modage on October 26, 2018, 12:15:32 PM
For a little more context: Albert was PTA's assistant for a long time, nice dude. Didn't know he made a film, good for him.  :yabbse-thumbup:
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on October 26, 2018, 08:45:04 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on October 25, 2018, 11:10:43 PM
Paul Dano appeared with Terry Gross on FRESH AIR on Oct 24, 2018.   


I listed to the actual audio of the interview today.  Quite interesting.   And I didn't know it was pronounced "Day-no"...
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on October 27, 2018, 10:56:40 PM
Ron Howard on PTA:


https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpc44Yfhms1/
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Something Spanish on October 28, 2018, 06:54:12 AM
they're still giving oscars to little ronnie howard...
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Heisenberg on November 02, 2018, 01:29:57 PM
PTA got a special thanks in the end credits for Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: WorldForgot on November 03, 2018, 11:30:20 AM
Quote from: Heisenberg on November 02, 2018, 01:29:57 PM
PTA got a special thanks in the end credits for Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria.

First billed special thanks, too!
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on November 03, 2018, 12:02:02 PM
For those of us out of that particular loop, what's the gratitude for, specifically?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Heisenberg on November 03, 2018, 02:32:53 PM
I'm thinking maybe he helped convince Thom Yorke to do the score. Also, there were moments in the film where I felt a bit of a PTA influence. He may have also been one of the first to see it and had nice things to say about it. I remember him saying Call Me By Your Name was his favorite film of last year.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on November 03, 2018, 11:37:36 PM
Awards buzz is icing for John Krasinski and 'A Quiet Place'

QuoteCritics loved its high concept thrills, too, and while many have offered their praise, a certain phone call stands out for Krasinski — the one he got from his favorite director, and friend, Paul Thomas Anderson.

"It was probably 30 minutes long about how much he loved the movie and how much it meant to him and how much he wished movies like this happened every Friday. I genuinely blacked out on that phone call," Krasinski said. "He said, 'I'll tell you the best compliment I can give you: As I was walking back to my car I thought, OK, I need to get back to work.'"

Anderson actually provided some inspiration for "A Quiet Place." Krasinski said he studied the opening of "There Will Be Blood" and other modern films that employ silence to figure out how he would approach it in his film. He also looked at "Jaws," ''Rosemary's Baby" the films of Alfred Hitchcock for ideas in tension-building.
Source (https://www.news-journal.com/awards-buzz-is-icing-for-john-krasinski-and-a-quiet/article_a5d8727e-dbb6-11e8-b090-d781c18849c6.html)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on November 04, 2018, 06:53:31 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on November 03, 2018, 11:37:36 PM
Awards buzz is icing for John Krasinski and 'A Quiet Place'

QuoteCritics loved its high concept thrills, too, and while many have offered their praise, a certain phone call stands out for Krasinski — the one he got from his favorite director, and friend, Paul Thomas Anderson.

"It was probably 30 minutes long about how much he loved the movie and how much it meant to him and how much he wished movies like this happened every Friday. I genuinely blacked out on that phone call," Krasinski said. "He said, 'I'll tell you the best compliment I can give you: As I was walking back to my car I thought, OK, I need to get back to work.'"

Anderson actually provided some inspiration for "A Quiet Place." Krasinski said he studied the opening of "There Will Be Blood" and other modern films that employ silence to figure out how he would approach it in his film. He also looked at "Jaws," ''Rosemary's Baby" the films of Alfred Hitchcock for ideas in tension-building.
Source (https://www.news-journal.com/awards-buzz-is-icing-for-john-krasinski-and-a-quiet/article_a5d8727e-dbb6-11e8-b090-d781c18849c6.html)

Ew.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on November 05, 2018, 04:56:00 PM
Quote from: WorldForgot on November 03, 2018, 11:30:20 AM
Quote from: Heisenberg on November 02, 2018, 01:29:57 PM
PTA got a special thanks in the end credits for Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria.

First billed special thanks, too!

i was like, "huh, everyone's noticing that, interesting," but now i'm like "oh okay i get it"

(https://i.imgur.com/w7CgzyX.png?1)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Yes on November 12, 2018, 07:10:09 PM
PTA moderated a DGA screening for If Beale Street Could Talk

Quote"I'm jealous of your close ups." -Paul Thomas Anderson to Barry Jenkins. Another amazing film from one of my favorite auteurs. To think both Moonlight and If...
https://twitter.com/YourFavN8Hapke/status/1061813279671103488

https://www.instagram.com/p/BqEGoWWHzFtAvbyJ7FnCedk3hb3h5Mb44VXpJM0/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=1fkeb49w8leqh
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on November 12, 2018, 09:59:21 PM
Moonlight was okay.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on November 12, 2018, 10:23:47 PM
It's cinephilia that's being celebrated
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Yes on November 14, 2018, 07:29:43 PM
QuotePaul Thomas Anderson is hosting an awards season screening of "A Quiet Place." Fascinating.

https://twitter.com/kristapley/status/1062878949070405632
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on November 19, 2018, 05:07:52 PM
Steven Brill (director, Adam Sandler One Hundred Percent Fresh concert film) on getting PTA to DP one of Sandler's L.A. nights.



Quote
Brill: I met Paul back when we were shooting Little Nicky in ... what was it, 1999? We were shooting at Paramount and Adam said, "Oh, that guy who did Boogie Nights is coming over. He wants to talk to me about some movie, and he's a big fan of yours." I'm like, "What?! The guy who did Boogie Nights is a fan of mine? From what, Heavyweights?" And Adam says, "Yeah, Heavyweights." I thought, "Okay, whatever," but then Paul shows up and says, "Man, I loved Heavyweights," and I was like, "Oh my God, this is the coolest thing ever." Because even then, when he had only done Hard Eight and Boogie Nights, everyone knew this was the guy. Great filmmaker. He showed up at Little Nicky and hung out, and he and Adam became friends and did Punch-Drunk Love and stayed friends.


Paul loves comedy and he loves music, and he's sneakily shooting little music things all the time. When we started working on the special, Phantom Thread came out, and there is nothing more exciting to me than a new PTA movie. Even though I know him and am friends with him, I'm still in awe of him, I'm still more a fan than anything else. With Phantom Thread I felt like he had taken it to a whole other level, and the fact that he was his own director of photography got me thinking maybe I could get him to shoot for me. Not the whole special, I knew he wouldn't do that, but maybe a night at Largo. He showed up there one night when Sandler was performing and I just threw it out there: "Hey Paul, how would you like to shoot a night?" His eyes sort of lit up, which was the first good sign. Then he goes, "Film?" And I go, "Yeah, film." I joked, "Think about it, we could get you a good day rate out of this," and he laughed and thought about it. And then I just kept pressuring him. We went out on tour, we came back. I told him we had these nights at Largo, though ultimately that didn't work out because of the fire marshals — it's a boxy theater without enough exits and stuff. But I thought, maybe if we find another place I can get him involved. I would email him places in the Valley that I knew he knew as a kid, then finally I just said, "How about we find a rock and roll place in Hollywood, like the Troubadour, and just make it look as cool as we can?"


We came upon the El Rey, which is a rock club but it's also an old theater, an old movie house. It had everything we needed for shooting, and Paul finally said yes and we got every person who could load film that was available — we had six film crews around each camera, loading ten-minute mags. We didn't stop, we just staggered the cameras and shot 80,000 feet of film. We had a day of prep and a day of shooting, and it was an absolute blast. It was the only night we shot on film and it cost more than the rest of the special, but it was worth it. It was an indulgence, I guess, but it looked gorgeous and we got some of those Paul Thomas Anderson wide-angle straight-in moves. He wanted to push in on Adam from the center of the theatre, which normally you can't do because there's no aisle directly in the middle of any venue. But in this place we were able to create the pit and the aisle and put a dolly in there. We did a tech rehearsal day with Adam that's actually in the movie; it's the first thing we open on, a camera test with Paul operating the dolly.


Source (https://filmmakermagazine.com/106329-i-wanted-to-do-for-adam-what-demme-did-for-david-byrne-in-stop-making-sense-steven-brill-talks-about-directing-adam-sandler-100-fresh/)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on November 25, 2018, 08:08:07 PM
https://youtu.be/ETrJUaoa1Zc

At around 3:30 of the video, Ethan Hawke questions praise towards Marlon Brando's directing in One Eyed Jack because Kubrick prepped the film and was fired last minute. "That would be like if I hired P.T. Anderson to make a film and then fired him last minute and directed it based on his plan and called myself a genius."

So he basically calls PTA this generations Kubrick.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ono on November 25, 2018, 09:24:19 PM
And he calls himself this generation's Brando.

I mean touche, and I like you Ethan, but that's a bold move, Cotton.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on December 06, 2018, 03:26:28 PM
John C. Reilly Talks Transformation For 'Stan & Ollie' And Relationship With Paul Thomas Anderson [Interview]


Quote
Speaking of "Boogie Nights," there's this great story about you, a mustache, a cop suit, and Paul Thomas Anderson. And this is essentially how you landed the role in "Magnolia."


Not exactly. I created the role of "Magnolia" by doing that. And Paul used the videotapes that we made as a joke because we were bored and I happened to have a mustache. And he thought I looked like a cop [laughter]. We were obsessed with cops at the time. We made those videotapes just for fun. And then we made "Boogie Nights." And when we were finished with '"Boogie Nights," when he started to write "Magnolia," he went back to those videotapes and created my character for "Magnolia" based on [them]. Paul's one of my closest friends. We've known each other a long time. We've been through a lot of things together.


(Reilly told an extended version of this story to a rapt audience at the Aero Theater (Santa Monica) back in October before a "Magnolia" screening.)


Source (https://theplaylist.net/stan-ollie-john-c-reilly-interview-20181206/2/#cb-content)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on December 18, 2018, 09:40:33 PM
'Vice' Originally Had a Musical Number, But Paul Thomas Anderson Convinced Adam McKay to Cut It (https://www.slashfilm.com/vice-musical-number/)
QuoteIt's hard to picture Dick Cheney bursting into song, but it almost happened in Adam McKay's Vice. McKay's dark comedy biopic about the former Vice President makes a wide variety of stylistic choices to tell its tale, and at one point, one of those flourishes involved a full-blown musical number. In the end, though, director Paul Thomas Anderson convinced McKay to leave it on the cutting room floor. More on the deleted Vice musical number below.

Just as he did with The Big Short, director Adam McKay takes an "everything and the kitchen sink" approach to his Dick Cheney biopic Vice, using a variety of cinematic tricks and visual sleight-of-hand to tell the story. It also almost featured a musical number. McKay revealed the presence of a song and dance scene, and confirmed Phantom Thread director Paul Thomas Anderson suggested he remove it, during a New York Times profile:

"McKay also showed "Vice" to filmmaker friends like Paul Thomas Anderson and David O. Russell. After Anderson, who watched two preliminary cuts, told McKay that the end of the movie worked great but the start "had problems," McKay decided to scrap two early sections: an elaborate musical number and a prolonged passage set in Cheney's Wyoming adolescence. McKay adored both but decided that Anderson was right — they were gumming up the machinery."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ElPandaRoyal on December 19, 2018, 04:04:37 AM
I love reading this sort of thing. Especially in an era when it seems everyone is so vulenrable to criticism, it's great to know that Paul is one of the people some filmmakers count on to give them some notes, and that he seems to be as honest as possible. The worst thing  people can do in these situations is not tell you how they feel so they don't hurt your feelings, so kudos to him.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on December 21, 2018, 01:56:32 PM
Adam McKay went from Ron Burgundy to Dick Cheney, and it actually makes perfect sense (https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/lifestyle/style/adam-mckay-went-from-ron-burgundy-to-dick-cheney-and-it-actually-makes-perfect-sense/2018/12/20/0fbedf28-045e-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html)


Quote
"Will [Ferrell] and I joke that we single-handedly ruined Paul Thomas Anderson's producing career before it started," Adam McKay says, casually splaying his 6-foot-5 frame across the couch, as though in a weekly therapy session. The original script for his eventual comedy classic "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" was so deliriously absurd that Anderson, the auteur behind "Boogie Nights," "The Phantom Thread" and "Magnolia" — a movie that ends with a preposterous rain of frogs falling from the sky — threw up his hands and amicably bowed out of the agreement.


"He was, like, 'I don't know what to tell these guys, because I love this, but I know it won't work," McKay adds.


Of course, it did work — at least half a dozen lines from the movie are firmly entrenched in the greater American lexicon — and pretty much everything else has worked for McKay in the decade-plus since he brought Ron Burgundy into our lives.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on January 03, 2019, 04:56:16 PM
John Krasinski had this PTA story:

https://twitter.com/kylebuchanan/status/1080935625732157440
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on January 03, 2019, 06:16:49 PM
It's such an obvious statement btw. No offense to PTA but to his fans (not referring to you specifically, whoever you are)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on January 03, 2019, 08:45:06 PM
Dude had PTA at his 30th birthday. Just...motherfucker.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilder on February 15, 2019, 09:27:15 PM
Paul Thomas Anderson's Longtime Cinematographer Says They Probably Won't Work Together Again
via IndieWire

Robert Elswit has shot six films for Paul Thomas Anderson and won an Academy Award for his work on "There Will Be Blood," but the cinematographer doesn't expect to work with Anderson again. During an appearance on the Light the Fuse podcast (https://www.lightthefusepodcast.com/podcast-episodes/2019/2/15/episode-thirty-five-robert-elswit-interview-part-2), Elswit didn't have great things to say about their working relationship: "God, I don't know what it is anymore," he said. "It's like a bad married couple. Unpleasant."

Asked whether he could see them collaborating again, Elswit didn't sound optimistic. "I don't know. Probably not. You know, it depends on how he feels. I would do it again...I didn't enjoy myself on 'Inherent Vice'...It was a combination of me and Paul just not getting along, and I can be as immature as him."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on February 15, 2019, 10:31:57 PM
"If you two get divorced, can I live with Papa Paul...?  Can I see Daddy Bob every other weekend, or something?"
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lottery on February 15, 2019, 11:29:16 PM
That's a shame. Perhaps on IV, PTA felt confident in his abilities to the point where he didn't need to rely entirely on Elswit's advice, so they had some disagreements. Or they simply just didn't get along.

Anyway, he said this last year: "Elswit was nice enough to work with me and teach me everything. He was and is my hero. "
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tdog on February 16, 2019, 06:56:10 AM
Maybe Elswit was saying "Paul, maybe we should move the fucking camera and have some establishing shots!".
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pringle on February 16, 2019, 11:36:34 AM
Listening to the podcast itself, it seems to me that Elswit is definitely at least 50% tongue-in-cheek/sardonic here. After this tidbit, he tells a 5 minute story about how brilliant and talented PTA is.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on February 16, 2019, 11:42:12 AM
Ugh...I've long suspected this, but to hear it more or less confirmed hurts. This hits me like when Blixa Bargeld or, more pointedly, Mick Harvey left the Bad Seeds...  :(
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: WorldForgot on February 16, 2019, 12:03:33 PM
Quote from: Tdog on February 16, 2019, 06:56:10 AM
Maybe Elswit was saying "Paul, maybe we should move the fucking camera and have some establishing shots!".

Ew. A take can be compelling in so many ways. For Paul, clearly he's in love with performances and actors off the jump. Why IV'z detractors insist it should have been the sort of PTA/Elswit collaboration we've already seen before, I'll never understand.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on February 16, 2019, 12:16:13 PM
Think PTA was actively trolling Elswit and that's why it's so sedate? lol
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on February 16, 2019, 12:23:54 PM
Also that podcast is great, listen to it!
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tdog on February 16, 2019, 01:06:49 PM
Quote from: WorldForgot on February 16, 2019, 12:03:33 PM
Quote from: Tdog on February 16, 2019, 06:56:10 AM
Maybe Elswit was saying "Paul, maybe we should move the fucking camera and have some establishing shots!".

Ew. A take can be compelling in so many ways. For Paul, clearly he's in love with performances and actors off the jump. Why IV'z detractors insist it should have been the sort of PTA/Elswit collaboration we've already seen before, I'll never understand.

I was only kidding, I like IV a lot. It's not my favourite PTA movie and I genuinely do think it would have benefitted pacing wise by shooting/blocking some of the scenes differently but I do have a lot of love for the movie.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lottery on February 16, 2019, 06:33:44 PM
Quote from: Pringle on February 16, 2019, 11:36:34 AM
Listening to the podcast itself, it seems to me that Elswit is definitely at least 50% tongue-in-cheek/sardonic here. After this tidbit, he tells a 5 minute story about how brilliant and talented PTA is.

Yeah, actually listening to it now, it sounds pretty harmless.
It's worth listening to the PTA bit for Elswit talking about use of lens flares and white walls on PDL.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pringle on February 22, 2019, 07:03:01 PM
According to Chris O'Falt (from Indiewire) on twitter:

"It hasn't been reported, but on MASTER, his first non-Elswit movie, PTA stopped talking to his DoP and starting communicating directly with his gaffer and camera op... hence PHANTOM THREAD."

I've heard rumors of this on here before, that Malaimare essentially just became another part of the crew midway through production. It makes sense as well, considering his seemingly complete absence during the release of the film, and he has had no real high profile gigs since The Master, which is universally lauded as one of the most brilliantly photographed films of this century. However, one of the films he's shot since The Master is Scott Frank's 'A Walk Among the Tombstones', which was written and directed by Scott Frank, who is one of PTA's good friends.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on February 22, 2019, 10:36:45 PM
Interesting. PTA really testing the boundaries of auteurism. I'd love to know which of those particularly mindblowing shots were ones that PTA had taken over.

As a side note, PTA definitely caused Malaimare to go bald:


2004

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTI0MjI5NzAyMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNzQ0MjU4._V1_.jpg)


2009

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwebcultura.ro%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F09%2FMalaimare-Jr.jpg&hash=dc64fcd3e856c9f7c768f05f8a2029163fcc9444)

2011

The Master is filmed

2012

(https://www.romania-insider.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mihai-malaimare-kodak.jpg)

2018

(https://cms-assets.theasc.com/Mihai-Mălaimare-Jr.-Clubhouse.jpg)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: axxonn on February 23, 2019, 08:56:22 AM
I know Mihai's work with Coppola is well regarded, but it has an overriding unrefined quality imo in spite of how stylish it often is (which generally ties into part of the appeal that some have for FFC's 2000s experimental movies). It wouldn't surprise me if PTA felt he had to take over duties on The Master if things were looking the same way.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tdog on February 23, 2019, 09:38:11 AM
PTA has that Kevin Shield's thing of referring to every action as being done by "WE" when really he should just be saying "I". It's a strange sort of modesty but one I appreciate all the same.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on March 04, 2019, 12:03:47 PM
Marc Maron talks with Alfred Molina in Episode 999 of WTF with Marc Maron.

QuoteAlfred tells Marc how he transitioned to movies, with his first film being a small trifle called Raiders of the Lost Ark, and how that paved the way for his future work with directors like Paul Thomas Anderson, Sam Raimi, and Jim Jarmusch. And yes, he and Marc talk about THAT scene in Boogie Nights.

Link (http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-999-alfred-molina)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on March 05, 2019, 03:15:44 PM
Mmmmm this lines up with something I heard awhile back. I was told Paul had gotten to a point where he knew the technical aspects as well as any DP which would make it hard/awkward for well-established DPs to work with him. This was right before The Master. After Robert joined IV, I assumed it wasn't anything, but maybe so.

You'd be surprised how many great directors don't even bother diving deep into the technical aspects of filmmaking because that's the DP's job. Scorsese hand draws storyboards for every shot and knows exactly what he wants, but he never discusses actual lenses with his DPs.  The DP interprets Scorsese's drawings and explanations. Scorsese has said on several occasions in interviews he rarely thinks about the lighting of a scene. Not saying this to make anything less of Scorsese, just saying PTA's knowledge of cinematography is unique even among great directors. I can see a cinematographer of Elswit's status feeling unneeded and maybe even unwanted when the director is that knowledgeable and that set in their ways. Not saying PTA has done anything wrong on his part, either! They may no longer jive together is all.

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on March 05, 2019, 03:28:31 PM
^ Since we don't have upvotes anymore, let me just say, post of the week.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on March 05, 2019, 04:02:12 PM
Agreed.  But shouldn't we at least wait until Thursday...?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: polkablues on March 05, 2019, 07:15:46 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/kblHi2Y.jpg)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on March 12, 2019, 12:00:19 AM
I'll put this here.

Quote
The Adam McKay-directed political comedy-drama "Vice" about the rise of Dick Cheney managed to be a Best Picture nominee, even as reviews for the film were decidedly more mixed than McKay's previous big contender "The Big Short".

It's a film with some decidedly odd moments, but one that was cut because it was considered just too wild was a musical number early in the film as Steve Carell's Donald Rumsfeld explains to Christian Bale's Dick Cheney the ins and outs of Washington politics.

Those involved have discussed the scene before whilst doing press for the movie, even indicating that the cut came after filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson weighed in with his take on the movie, and we know it's set to be included on the Blu-ray and digital release. Today, Slashfilm has posted the clip online.

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on March 12, 2019, 06:25:50 AM
Man, he would totally cut Wise Up today...
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on March 12, 2019, 11:34:24 AM
Quote from: eward on March 12, 2019, 06:25:50 AM
Man, he would totally cut Wise Up today...

He's said so.

That said, this clip isn't half as good as Wise Up.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on March 12, 2019, 02:38:08 PM
Yeah, I know, I just always like to imagine he's being facetious.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Sleepless on March 15, 2019, 10:23:27 PM
Yeah, he made the right choice to cut
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Heisenberg on March 22, 2019, 12:33:15 AM
PTA got a special thanks credit on Jordan Peele's US.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on March 22, 2019, 03:47:37 PM

(To elaborate just a little):

QuoteBesides David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick is also an influence, especially The Shining. There are also echoes of the TV series The Leftovers, as well as that certain biblical verse that subtly pops up throughout the film, in the tradition of Exodus 8:2 throughout Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (PTA is thanked in the film's acknowledgements.)


Source (https://www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictures/us-is-coming)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: csage97 on March 26, 2019, 04:03:33 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on March 22, 2019, 03:47:37 PM

(To elaborate just a little):

QuoteBesides David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick is also an influence, especially The Shining. There are also echoes of the TV series The Leftovers, as well as that certain biblical verse that subtly pops up throughout the film, in the tradition of Exodus 8:2 throughout Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (PTA is thanked in the film's acknowledgements.)


Source (https://www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictures/us-is-coming)

I wouldn't exactly call those verse references in Us "subtle" .... The camera literally shows it as the main point of interest in at least two shots.

I'm also pretty cranky about that movie and think its intellectual depth is being over-exaggerated in the media. Still better than a lot films, relatively speaking, but it doesn't at all live up to all the lauding. I'll take the small chances I can get to complain about that movie, I guess.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on March 26, 2019, 11:02:32 AM
(Light spoilers for "Us")

I agree, Us is anything but subtle, and the placement of the bible verses is definitely not. I don't mind unsubtle movies, though... mother! is extremely unsubtle, and it's my favorite film of the last 5+ years. You could also argue the bible references were one of the few subtle things about Magnolia.

I actually think all 3 of these movies share some DNA. They are not subtle, but their endings are bonkers in a complex enough way to invite a spectrum of interpretations (multiples of which may be true at the same time) and leave enough unanswered to arrive at a satisfying ambiguity.

I see the words "muddled" and "confused" being used to describe the ending of Us, and these are words that have been applied to some of my favorite movies for the same reasons.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: csage97 on March 26, 2019, 09:45:17 PM
Sorry you've had to put up with my complaining about Us, JB. I don't mind unsubtle parts in movies either; I just had to strongly disagree with that quote saying the bible references are subtle, because they're obviously not.

There are of course always going to be those who don't like ambiguity and who like their plots neatly wrapped and often predictable. Most of those straightforward movies are boring to me. Inherent Vice is one of my favourite movies, after all.

I don't know if I'd call the ending to Us itself "muddled" or "confused;" it makes it quite clear about what's going on and what it wants to be. It's just that it's less confused with what it wants to be and is more so confusing to an audience. That is, its meaning and its origin within the context of the movie are ambiguous and invite interpretation, but I wouldn't say Peele was confused about making it what it is. Kind of splitting hairs, and maybe what I wrote is what those critics are trying to get at anyway.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on March 26, 2019, 11:32:48 PM
No reason to apologize! What you're talking about mostly comes down to preference, and you make fair points.

Some critics are in fact saying Us is confused rather than confusing. A presumptuous thing to say after one watch.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: csage97 on March 27, 2019, 02:12:54 AM
Yes, and it's possible that these critics think the film is confused because they're confused, an assumption based on ignorance. I hate it when that's actually the case with a portion of the audience or a critic.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on April 23, 2019, 11:20:11 PM
Composer Patrick Warren Breaks Down the Score of Showtime's 'The Chi' and His Career In Music

Patrick Warren is the composer for Showtime's Peabody Award-nominated series, The Chi. While this is Warren's first gig as the head composer on a television or film project, his work in the medium goes back over twenty years, beginning with Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight and Boogie Nights.

Quote
You have a credit on Boogie Nights as well. I assume that came from your relationship with Michael who composed the music for that film.

It definitely did. I had written a 30-second piece called Disney's A Snowcone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnGZ4eR4SNU) – an introduction to one of Michael's songs – and they wanted to use it for the movie, and Michael took the melody and turned it upside-down and wrote it backwards. I became good friends with Paul Thomas Anderson and then he stuck me in Magnolia as an actor. I'm one of the game show contestants against the kid.

Are you really?

I can't watch it. It's fucking frightening (laughs). I had no business being in that movie, but he was just determined to have me in it. Aimee was working on her album, Bachelor #2, and Paul had come around and was just fascinated, and Paul was kind of writing the movie around what was going on with that record. Aimee's such a huge part of that score.

One of my favorite uses of a song in any movie is the Wise Up section of the film using Aimee's song. I love the way he brought all the characters together in a sense through a piece of music. Which is what you do too, through your score?

As best I can! (Laughs).

I'm fascinated that his "Disney's A Snowcone" was the...inspiration?...for what became that perfect "broken circus" music that opens Boogie Nights. 

Source (https://www.awardsdaily.com/2019/04/23/composer-patrick-warren-breaks-down-the-score-of-showtimes-the-chi-and-his-career-in-music/)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on June 02, 2019, 11:24:27 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/8MOUmit.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/htR9EBN.png)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pringle on July 16, 2019, 07:06:00 PM
Paul is interviewed for the CNN "The Movies" documentary and featured pretty heavily.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: greenberryhill on July 18, 2019, 01:35:13 AM
You can see him talking about E.T. here (min 3:03)



here talking about Goodfellas (min 3:10), The Silence of the Lambs (min 6:35)

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on July 18, 2019, 11:05:17 AM
He's actually the first talking head in each of the first two episodes so far.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pringle on July 30, 2019, 04:49:08 PM
Amy Nicholson is doing a three episode podcast series with Tarantino about some of his favorite movie going experiences. One of the films he will talk about (there are 5 over the course of 3 episodes) is Boogie Nights. The episode should drop tomorrow. The podcast is "Quentin Tarantino's 'Feature Presentation.'"
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on July 30, 2019, 04:58:08 PM
This had been referenced twice in other threads, but yes, I'm especially looking forward to this third episode.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: axxonn on August 03, 2019, 03:33:29 PM
PTA gets a quick mention on the latest A24 podcast between Ari Aster and Robert Eggers.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lewton on December 10, 2019, 04:54:42 PM
QuoteSandler's initial reticence was alleviated in part by the strong approval of Anderson, who shot part of Sandler's last stand-up special, "100% Fresh."

"When he saw 'Good Time,' he was like, 'Oh my God. Those guys,'" Sandler says. "These guys did something to Paul that stopped him in his tracks. When Paul saw this movie, he texted after: 'Still in the theater. Can't move.'"

Here's the link. After a quick glance, it seems there are spoilers for Uncut Gems: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/12/10/world/ap-us-film-adam-sandler.html
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on December 10, 2019, 05:32:06 PM
funny enough, also from that article:

Quote"Uncut Gems" is an especially intense experience. If you remember the loud, discombobulating drug-dealer scene in Anderson's "Boogie Nights," "Uncut Gems" runs at that high-pitched frenzy for its pretty much its entire length.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on December 10, 2019, 10:51:45 PM
Jeff Goldblum Weighs In On The Best Movies Of The Decade (https://www.ksut.org/post/jeff-goldblum-weighs-best-movies-decade)

GOLDBLUM: Besides that, the ones that I'm not in - let me see. You know, what came to mind as I was thinking of this? I like Paul Thomas Anderson, another Anderson, and I like "The Master."

I would love to work with him. I liked "Inherent Vice." I liked all of his movies, "Boogie Nights," is, of course, great. Gee, I just think he's very special. He admired somebody that I worked with, I think, worked with him a little bit - with Robert Altman. I did four movies with Robert Altman. I was so lucky to encounter him early in my career. You should never name-drop. You know who told me that? Robert De Niro.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on December 14, 2019, 09:57:14 PM
Steven Soderbergh on why he stopped working as a writer/director: "It's fucking hard" (https://news.avclub.com/steven-soderbergh-on-why-he-stopped-working-as-a-writer-1840422105)

QuoteI wrote to get my foot in the door, but in having a frank conversation with myself, I realized, "You're not really a writer." You've written, but by the standards by which I judge writers, then, no. Lem Dobbs is a writer. I am not. It's a trap that young filmmakers fall into. "I have to write and direct everything I do." Well, that's fine, only . . . if you're not Paul Thomas Anderson, don't put yourself through hell for no reason. There's a reason he only makes movies every what, four years or so? To go to the well to write original screenplays — it's fucking hard. And I realized my well wasn't very deep. The best use of my skill set as a filmmaker was to work with writers instead of being a one-man band. That changed everything for the better.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on January 22, 2020, 08:09:44 PM
https://youtu.be/IrF9p4JV68A
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: polkablues on January 22, 2020, 08:46:51 PM
I want to show this to any professional editor and watch them turn red with rage.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tdog on January 23, 2020, 01:26:47 AM


Quote from: polkablues on January 22, 2020, 08:46:51 PM
I want to show this to any professional editor and watch them turn red with rage.
I'm not sure what's wrong with the editing in the context of it being a short but the 3 minutes I watched were hilarious.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: polkablues on January 23, 2020, 01:50:53 AM
Pay attention to the way it cuts in the back-and-forth dialogue. Right on the line, every time. Cut to Character A as he starts talking, cut to Character B as he starts talking, repeat endlessly. No reaction shots, no use of montage, no attempt to tell the story through editing whatsoever.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tdog on January 23, 2020, 12:58:13 PM
Yeah I get that and I absolutely loathe seeing dialogue scenes cut like that in tv/movies, but I feel it's forgivable here, maybe because I was laughing.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on March 09, 2020, 09:46:47 PM
Buck Swope  Don Cheadle on with Marc Maron.  Dropped today.

https://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1104-don-cheadle
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on March 16, 2020, 11:05:48 AM
This New Yorker piece on Fiona Apple has a few (unflattering) tidbits about their relationship.  There's also a story about Tarantino and PTA doing cocaine.

According to this, PTA never hit her, but it was a pretty toxic relationship. He apparently followed her to Hawaii on a whim after meeting her ala PDL.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/fiona-apples-art-of-radical-sensitivity?utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=tny&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_twitter
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on March 16, 2020, 11:21:13 AM
I didn't know a lot about their relationship (which maybe was a good thing).   And I always had trouble believing that PTA wrote that rap in Magnolia (turns out Fiona did). 
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: trytotell on March 16, 2020, 11:34:35 AM
Why does she always talk about him? I know I sound insensitive but give me a break. Especially when she also brought up Maya's name when she was promoting her last album. He has kids now.

And funny how this article completely skips over her long, lasting friendship with her ex David Blaine, who's been accused of rape by 2 women. Nor any mention of the Affair showrunners' recent, um. controversies. But no, harp on a 20 year old relationship that you never stopped talking about in the first place.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on March 16, 2020, 11:36:03 AM
Quote from: trytotell on March 16, 2020, 11:34:35 AM
Why does always talk about him? It's a little pathetic at this point. Especially when she also brought up Maya's name when she was promoting her last album. He has kids now, move the hell on.

And funny how this article completely skips over her long, lasting friendship with her ex David Blaine, who's been accused of rape by 2 women.

Oh. Fuck off.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: trytotell on March 16, 2020, 11:40:15 AM
Quote from: Drenk on March 16, 2020, 11:36:03 AM
Quote from: trytotell on March 16, 2020, 11:34:35 AM
Why does always talk about him? It's a little pathetic at this point. Especially when she also brought up Maya's name when she was promoting her last album. He has kids now, move the hell on.

And funny how this article completely skips over her long, lasting friendship with her ex David Blaine, who's been accused of rape by 2 women.

Oh. Fuck off.

You first.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alma on March 16, 2020, 11:46:40 AM
Quote from: trytotell on March 16, 2020, 11:34:35 AM
Why does she always talk about him? I know I sound insensitive but give me a break. Especially when she also brought up Maya's name when she was promoting her last album. He has kids now.

And funny how this article completely skips over her long, lasting friendship with her ex David Blaine, who's been accused of rape by 2 women. Nor any mention of the Affair showrunners' recent, um. controversies. But no, harp on a 20 year old relationship that you never stopped talking about in the first place.

I would say the reason she always talks about him is cause she gets asked about it constantly. He's mentioned in pretty much every piece about her. I'm not surprised she wanted to say this, it would be horrible to be instrinsically linked forever with a relationship that was awful for you. That gif of them at the Oscars, and that picture of them at the premiere get circulated constantly on social media as some sort of aspirational thing. She even says in the interview that's why she wanted to put this to bed once and for all.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: trytotell on March 16, 2020, 11:52:22 AM
Quote from: Alma on March 16, 2020, 11:46:40 AM
Quote from: trytotell on March 16, 2020, 11:34:35 AM
Why does she always talk about him? I know I sound insensitive but give me a break. Especially when she also brought up Maya's name when she was promoting her last album. He has kids now.

And funny how this article completely skips over her long, lasting friendship with her ex David Blaine, who's been accused of rape by 2 women. Nor any mention of the Affair showrunners' recent, um. controversies. But no, harp on a 20 year old relationship that you never stopped talking about in the first place.

I would say the reason she always talks about him is cause she gets asked about it constantly. He's mentioned in pretty much every piece about her. I'm not surprised she wanted to say this, it would be horrible to be instrinsically linked forever with a relationship that was awful for you. That gif of them at the Oscars, and that picture of them at the premiere get circulated constantly on social media as some sort of aspirational thing. She even says in the interview that's why she wanted to put this to bed once and for all.

She's voluntarily brought him up many times without being asked, even Maya's name which is not at all her place IMO. The rest I can understand, but to go on and on about him and have nothing to say about her accused rapist ex is hypocritical to me. 
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alma on March 16, 2020, 12:01:00 PM
Quote from: trytotell on March 16, 2020, 11:52:22 AM
Quote from: Alma on March 16, 2020, 11:46:40 AM
Quote from: trytotell on March 16, 2020, 11:34:35 AM
Why does she always talk about him? I know I sound insensitive but give me a break. Especially when she also brought up Maya's name when she was promoting her last album. He has kids now.

And funny how this article completely skips over her long, lasting friendship with her ex David Blaine, who's been accused of rape by 2 women. Nor any mention of the Affair showrunners' recent, um. controversies. But no, harp on a 20 year old relationship that you never stopped talking about in the first place.

I would say the reason she always talks about him is cause she gets asked about it constantly. He's mentioned in pretty much every piece about her. I'm not surprised she wanted to say this, it would be horrible to be instrinsically linked forever with a relationship that was awful for you. That gif of them at the Oscars, and that picture of them at the premiere get circulated constantly on social media as some sort of aspirational thing. She even says in the interview that's why she wanted to put this to bed once and for all.

She's voluntarily brought him up many times without being asked, even Maya's name which is not at all her place IMO. The rest I can understand, but to go on and on about him and have nothing to say about her accused rapist ex is hypocritical to me.

It says in the piece she's disturbed that Blaine was mentioned in Jeffrey Epstein's book. She also mentions Louis CK, Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein, and other issues connected with the MeToo movement, it's pretty clear that she disapproves of this type of behaviour in general. I think the reason she talks about PTA more is cause
a) She's talking about stuff that has happened to her
b) It describes her relationship with Blaine as a "youthful romance" - she didn't go out with him for very long iirc. Whereas the PTA relationship is frequently brought up as some sort of 90s era-defining thing, and again, is mentioned in every single article I've ever read about her whether she brings him up or not, many album reviews that have nothing to do with him etc.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on March 16, 2020, 12:03:05 PM
Welp, I told ya. Didn't he cheat on her too? She all but said it before. Surprised she didn't bring that up here as well.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pringle on March 16, 2020, 12:05:32 PM
If all of this is true — and why wouldn't it be? — she definitely has a right to talk about it, because he just made a movie about this exact same relationship dynamic.

It's also flat out abusive behavior, and explains some of the Plainview / Woodcock characterizations.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on March 16, 2020, 12:09:39 PM
Quote from: Drill on March 16, 2020, 12:03:05 PM
Welp, I told ya. Didn't he cheat on her too? She all but said it before. Surprised she didn't bring that up here as well.

He did. The song "Oh Well" is about him, too.

And yes, the context of the article and her new album, apparently, is #MeToo and abuse, that was the right place to put things at their place.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on March 16, 2020, 12:33:01 PM
I was always a little uncomfortable with how rough he was grabbing her in that clip from the Magnolia documentary.

He seems to be a better, more laid back person now. I can only hope so.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on March 16, 2020, 12:34:35 PM
I have no personal experience, but would the coke have contributed significantly to his behavior?  (It couldn't have helped.)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on March 16, 2020, 12:37:30 PM
There's also the moment where he's being abusive to a crew member, I don't remember who. Classic wonderkid brat behavior. He does seem more laid back, yes. He seems to have stopped cocaine, at least. And his films got better.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on March 16, 2020, 12:46:18 PM
Quote from: Drenk on March 16, 2020, 12:09:39 PM
Quote from: Drill on March 16, 2020, 12:03:05 PM
Welp, I told ya. Didn't he cheat on her too? She all but said it before. Surprised she didn't bring that up here as well.

He did. The song "Oh Well" is about him, too.

And yes, the context of the article and her new album, apparently, is #MeToo and abuse, that was the right place to put things at their place.

It's what I was really referring to when I said Magnolia was full of shit. All those monologues about not cheating on your partner when he was during or shortly after that time.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on March 16, 2020, 12:51:37 PM
That's the "aspirational" part of the movie which has badly aged, but the core of Magnolia is about difficult relationships with family, especially fathers.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on March 16, 2020, 12:58:55 PM
If you watch an interview from the 1990's and an interview from like Phantom Thread he seems like a completely different person.  I think stopping cocaine and becoming a dad may have humbled him.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: trytotell on March 16, 2020, 01:25:54 PM
Quote from: Alma on March 16, 2020, 12:01:00 PM
Quote from: trytotell on March 16, 2020, 11:52:22 AM
Quote from: Alma on March 16, 2020, 11:46:40 AM
Quote from: trytotell on March 16, 2020, 11:34:35 AM
Why does she always talk about him? I know I sound insensitive but give me a break. Especially when she also brought up Maya's name when she was promoting her last album. He has kids now.

And funny how this article completely skips over her long, lasting friendship with her ex David Blaine, who's been accused of rape by 2 women. Nor any mention of the Affair showrunners' recent, um. controversies. But no, harp on a 20 year old relationship that you never stopped talking about in the first place.

I would say the reason she always talks about him is cause she gets asked about it constantly. He's mentioned in pretty much every piece about her. I'm not surprised she wanted to say this, it would be horrible to be instrinsically linked forever with a relationship that was awful for you. That gif of them at the Oscars, and that picture of them at the premiere get circulated constantly on social media as some sort of aspirational thing. She even says in the interview that's why she wanted to put this to bed once and for all.

She's voluntarily brought him up many times without being asked, even Maya's name which is not at all her place IMO. The rest I can understand, but to go on and on about him and have nothing to say about her accused rapist ex is hypocritical to me.

It says in the piece she's disturbed that Blaine was mentioned in Jeffrey Epstein's book. She also mentions Louis CK, Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein, and other issues connected with the MeToo movement, it's pretty clear that she disapproves of this type of behaviour in general. I think the reason she talks about PTA more is cause
a) She's talking about stuff that has happened to her
b) It describes her relationship with Blaine as a "youthful romance" - she didn't go out with him for very long iirc. Whereas the PTA relationship is frequently brought up as some sort of 90s era-defining thing, and again, is mentioned in every single article I've ever read about her whether she brings him up or not, many album reviews that have nothing to do with him etc.

But it's written like she had nothing to do with him after their "youthful romance" which is bullshit. She was close friends with him for a long time afterwards to the point where she'd stay at his place when she was in New York (per her words). Why leave that out?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Freddie Dodd on March 16, 2020, 01:51:31 PM
His long standing marriage with Maya seems to steer clear of his past actions with Fiona. Paul just seemed to be an arrogant youthful director who directed one sensational film and felt the world belonged to him. Anyone who watch That Moment documentary could sense a discretional difficulty in Apple and Anderson relationship. That whole maturity thing is pointy with how he's conducts himself since presumptive going away from cocaine and into his new groove. Not that this excludes his toxic behavior with Fiona Apple, just something that I could sense even before the New Yorker article surface today. There still friends from what I remember, he did a music video back around 2012.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on March 16, 2020, 02:57:53 PM
I love Fiona.

And yeah, the stuff with PTA - not good at all, hopefully he's changed.

Not for nothing though, the article mentions that Fiona doesn't consider herself an alcoholic, yet goes on to detail how, "for years", she would sip straight vodka every night until she passed out. Honey...you're an alcoholic, no two ways about it.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on March 16, 2020, 05:27:57 PM
Quote from: Freddie Dodd on March 16, 2020, 01:51:31 PM
His long standing marriage with Maya seems to steer clear of his past actions with Fiona. Paul just seemed to be an arrogant youthful director who directed one sensational film and felt the world belonged to him. Anyone who watch That Moment documentary could sense a discretional difficulty in Apple and Anderson relationship. That whole maturity thing is pointy with how he's conducts himself since presumptive going away from cocaine and into his new groove. Not that this excludes his toxic behavior with Fiona Apple, just something that I could sense even before the New Yorker article surface today. There still friends from what I remember, he did a music video back around 2012.

Uh, they're obviously not friends...
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pringle on March 16, 2020, 06:42:30 PM
There is mention later in the article that she is re-releasing her "When the Pawn..." album with all of PTA's artwork removed.

Sounds like he was a bad, abusive guy and she is taking steps to heal from that.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: martinthewarrior on March 16, 2020, 07:20:18 PM
Quote from: Pringle on March 16, 2020, 06:42:30 PM
There is mention later in the article that she is re-releasing her "When the Pawn..." album with all of PTA's artwork removed.

Sounds like he was a bad, abusive guy and she is taking steps to heal from that.

Sounds like they were young people dealing with substance abuse and too much fame and being general shits. Anderson has made a career dealing with angry, entitled young men trying, and sometimes failing, to grow up. Ms. Apple is obviously dealing with her own set of complicated stuffs. Good for her for bloodletting, but it feels a bit tawdry for people who don't know either of them to make broad judgements about no longer young people based on a Polaroid of them at their coked out worst. Hope both parties are happy and healthy.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on March 16, 2020, 07:32:26 PM
Quote from: martinthewarrior on March 16, 2020, 07:20:18 PM
Sounds like they were young people dealing with substance abuse and too much fame and being general shits. Anderson has made a career dealing with angry, entitled young men trying, and sometimes failing, to grow up. Ms. Apple is obviously dealing with her own set of complicated stuffs. Good for her for bloodletting, but it feels a bit tawdry for people who don't know either of them to make broad judgements about no longer young people based on a Polaroid of them at their coked out worst. Hope both parties are happy and healthy.


I love this answer.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on March 16, 2020, 08:16:53 PM
Quote from: eward on March 16, 2020, 02:57:53 PM
Not for nothing though, the article mentions that Fiona doesn't consider herself an alcoholic, yet goes on to detail how, "for years", she would sip straight vodka every night until she passed out. Honey...you're an alcoholic, no two ways about it.

Yeah. "I'm not an alcoholic, I just urgently need to stop drinking." As long as it worked! And she looks definitely more healthy nowadays, the videos from 2012 were concerning.

I want to add that nobody is making a broad judgment about unknown persons, saying that it's shitty to be abusive to your girlfriend is the same as saying that landing a plane on the Hudson river and saving lives is great. Two statements who aren't broad judgments of PTA or Sully.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: martinthewarrior on March 16, 2020, 09:09:36 PM
Quote from: Drenk on March 16, 2020, 08:16:53 PM
Quote from: eward on March 16, 2020, 02:57:53 PM
Not for nothing though, the article mentions that Fiona doesn't consider herself an alcoholic, yet goes on to detail how, "for years", she would sip straight vodka every night until she passed out. Honey...you're an alcoholic, no two ways about it.

Yeah. "I'm not an alcoholic, I just urgently need to stop drinking." As long as it worked! And she looks definitely more healthy nowadays, the videos from 2012 were concerning.

I want to add that nobody is making a broad judgment about unknown persons, saying that it's shitty to be abusive to your girlfriend is the same as saying that landing a plane on the Hudson river and saving lives is great. Two statements who aren't broad judgments of PTA or Sully.

Not quite tracking the Sully metaphor... people are complex and shitty often. Capable of callousness and warmth in equal measure depending on the backdrop and mitigating factors. Especially when they're in their 20's. Especially when they're doing a fuck ton of coke. Again, it is absolutely Fiona Apple's right to speak her truth. But, not sure what uninvolved 3rd, 4th, 5th parties really have to litigate.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: trytotell on March 16, 2020, 09:38:51 PM
Oh you're back. What happened to that info you knew about his new film? It wasn't the high school project right?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: axxonn on March 17, 2020, 08:58:18 AM
Yikes, doesn't read well. Is that the first negative character piece to appear on PTA? Wonder how it will affect him and his reputation going forward.

Quote from: jviness02 on March 16, 2020, 12:58:55 PM
If you watch an interview from the 1990's and an interview from like Phantom Thread he seems like a completely different person.  I think stopping cocaine and becoming a dad may have humbled him.

I agree with this - at times he seems flat-out embarrassed about old comments he made. Still doesn't exonerate his actions, of course. Will be interesting to see how/if he responds to this.

(But in all honesty, if you judge PTA as best we can from the kind of characters he consistently writes, his behaviour doesn't exactly sound all that surprising - the level of apparent passive aggressiveness/abuse, on the other hand, is unsettling and disappointing).
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on March 17, 2020, 09:34:24 AM
Quote from: axxonn on March 17, 2020, 08:58:18 AM
Yikes, doesn't read well. Is that the first negative character piece to appear on PTA? Wonder how it will affect him and his reputation going forward.

Has this blown up on social media at all? I haven't seen it around much, mostly just the cocaine quote. I doubt it will affect him much other than people being mad at him on Twitter for a few days. With people's attention spans, and with everything going on now, it will likely be forgotten by most people by next week. It's probably best for him to ignore it (publicly) and let it blow over. He's entitled to respond/defend himself but it wouldn't be the wisest move, PR speaking.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Something Spanish on March 17, 2020, 11:58:41 AM
I really enjoyed reading that, reading a new yorker profile of one of your favorite artists is one of life's beauties.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on March 17, 2020, 12:20:38 PM
Quote from: Drill on March 17, 2020, 09:34:24 AM
Has this blown up on social media at all? I haven't seen it around much, mostly just the cocaine quote.

I saw a few "cancel!" calls, but for the most part it seemed to be bemused cocaine commentary.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pringle on March 17, 2020, 12:57:30 PM
When the new film comes out, this is gonna be a big story but, right now, PTA could murder his entire family and it would be a minor story.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on March 17, 2020, 01:00:32 PM
Quote from: Pringle on March 17, 2020, 12:57:30 PM
When the new film comes out, this is gonna be a big story but, right now, PTA could murder his entire family and it would be a minor story.

I highly doubt it. Maybe if she continually talks about it on a promo tour or something.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on March 17, 2020, 02:05:14 PM
Look, it doesn't excuse anything he did, but we all have moments of ugliness - particularly, I'd wager, in the arena of young romance - I'm sure that (would/do) cause each of us to cringe bitterly upon reflection. Add to that sudden fame, outsized adulation/scorn, substance abuse, ego, whatever else... They were young. I'm sure (I hope) he regrets that which he should, and has matured accordingly. No need to cancel anyone, sheesh, world (potentially).

Anyhow, Fiona rules, can't wait for the new record.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on March 17, 2020, 02:14:52 PM
What I meant yesterday is that nobody was making judgment or engaging in litigation by describing abuse as abuse: the legal vocabulary was originitating from aimless protectiveness. It's frustrating when the conversation immediately escalates to concerns of "cancellation", especially here, in Xixax, a contained public forum.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on March 17, 2020, 03:35:36 PM
Yes, we have every right to say abuse is bad without canceling him.

And yes, many times(not always) an abusive relationship goes both ways and based on his overall demeanor and reputation now, it's very likely that both of these people are better people now without the other.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on March 17, 2020, 04:00:51 PM
Right. She seems very dramatic and exhausting to me (not a criticism, just observing and in no way implying that it excuses anything), so mix that with him at that time and it was a toxic match.  People being nostalgic over failed relationships will always confuse me. Maybe if they publicly confirmed their break up when they split, it wouldn't have gone on so much.

He and Maya always being so private and under the radar was an obvious immediate lesson he learned. They've only sort of just started courting attention with PT but that will probably be as far as it ever goes.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on March 17, 2020, 04:59:05 PM
Yep. Not to mention two heavy drug users are rarely ingredients for a healthy relationship. There's been enough hints now and again that I think his use of cocaine in his early years of fame is probably not exaggerated and she definitely has/had alcohol problems.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on March 17, 2020, 05:36:17 PM
Quote from: jviness02 on March 17, 2020, 04:59:05 PM
Yep. Not to mention two heavy drug users are rarely ingredients for a healthy relationship. There's been enough hints now and again that I think his use of cocaine in his early years of fame is probably not exaggerated and she definitely has/had alcohol problems.

He himself is often now pictured with a drink in his hand, I've noticed. I hope that's not an issue. It's got to be hard for that kind of personality to completely cut off.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ForTheHungryBoy on March 17, 2020, 05:38:16 PM
Quote from: Drill on March 17, 2020, 05:36:17 PM
Quote from: jviness02 on March 17, 2020, 04:59:05 PM
Yep. Not to mention two heavy drug users are rarely ingredients for a healthy relationship. There's been enough hints now and again that I think his use of cocaine in his early years of fame is probably not exaggerated and she definitely has/had alcohol problems.

He himself is often now pictured with a drink in his hand, I've noticed. I hope that's not an issue. It's got to be hard for that kind of personality to completely cut off.
ciggys

With this article, yet another bit of Phantom Thread is unlocked  :ponder:
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ThereWillBeOreos on March 17, 2020, 06:03:31 PM
Reading the article... I guess a case can be made for Barry Egan being an almost, Author-Avatar for PTA? (I know all his characters sort of reflect himself but still) Not only the traveling to Hawaii, but the fits of angers, the many siblings, the anxiety, seem a little sweet on the surface but quite distributed? Maybe his breakup with Fiona Apple and his relationship with Maya sort of influenced the script? Hopefully I don't sound like I'm reaching.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Something Spanish on March 17, 2020, 06:20:24 PM
Fiona rules. Going to jam to The Idler Wheel as an antidote to my quavering nerves.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ono on March 17, 2020, 07:06:25 PM
I'm as big a fan of Fiona as PTA, so it's almost like seeing mom and dad fighting 20 years after the divorce.  20 years ago they were both on top of the world and the envy of artists everywhere.

Fiona didn't have to say a thing. High road. I've always been envious of PTA because he seemed to have been given the keys to the kingdom at a young age, afforded opportunities and luck few get, so, to see this bratty behavior takes him down a few.  And to see how autobiographical PDL really is makes me wonder how much PTA is like Plainview too. And Woodcock of course. Don't meet your heroes, pobody's nerfect, etc.  This smacks of airing dirty laundry to create buzz for an album by dragging an ex and creative partner's name through the mud. What else is the point?

Love 'em both, separate the art from the artist, PTA + Maya walking through the streets all disheveled is still goals.  And they do right to keep things close to the chest.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on March 17, 2020, 07:20:13 PM
This is a personal profile of an artist. It takes one hour to read out loud. Of course she would mention Paul Thomas Anderson, especially in a retrospective fashion. She's Fiona Apple. There were headlines in major publications when she announced in language sign that her album was done. She's been living on "Criminal" for years. This isn't about buzz. This "what's the point?" attitude toward people who talk about abuse is condescending and just...weird. I mean, let's be coherent, then. What's the point of celebrity culture and the insane amount of info we have about a lot of people? Plus, the point is explicit: the article says that she was uncomfortable with the romantization of her past relationship with PTA. The article also deals with the reality of celebrity, where no matter what you say or don't say, people will speculate about you, entertaining a public image.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: trytotell on March 17, 2020, 07:31:48 PM
Didn't the Hot Knife video, which she asked him to do per her words, knowingly contribute to the "myth/nostalgia" of them? IIRC, it was then almost fully promoted on the basis of them "reuniting!!". Was he still a jerk to her on the set of that or something? They didn't go into that enough nor their current terms. Just skipped around it.


Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Pringle on March 17, 2020, 08:23:46 PM
From her song "Regret":

'Member when I was so sick and you didn't believe me?
Then you got sick too and guess who took care of you?
You hated that, didn't you? Didn't you?
Now when you look at me, you're condemned to see
The monster your mother made you to be
And there you got me, that's how you got free
You got rid of me
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: WorldForgot on March 18, 2020, 09:13:49 AM
Good correlation.
Spoiler: ShowHide
 twists PTA's comments at Apple's mother from the profile reflected/refracted
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Freddie Dodd on April 06, 2020, 02:53:24 PM
Bill Hader drops by in an old C&RV interview from 2000.


Bill Hader (Friend of the site): Did you see Rosetta (same filmmakers that made La Promesse)?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: ForTheHungryBoy on April 19, 2020, 09:06:36 AM
Fiona's new album is great btw. She's an incredible artist
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on April 19, 2020, 12:11:06 PM
She's got her own thread.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on April 27, 2020, 09:46:36 PM
https://twitter.com/GoBrownRanger/status/1254922686599438336
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on April 27, 2020, 10:05:21 PM
Oh. Robert Downey Jr was Iron Man. Seriously, I was wondering why he would bother expressing that kind of bullshit to someone before I remembered the obvious detail.  :saywhat:
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on April 28, 2020, 12:00:13 AM
I'm going to interpret that as Joker shade because why not?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on April 28, 2020, 10:44:18 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on April 27, 2020, 09:46:36 PM
https://twitter.com/GoBrownRanger/status/1254922686599438336

Did that actually happen?  I say probably not.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tdog on April 28, 2020, 11:23:45 AM
Quote from: jviness02 on April 28, 2020, 10:44:18 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on April 27, 2020, 09:46:36 PM
https://twitter.com/GoBrownRanger/status/1254922686599438336

Did that actually happen?  I say probably not.

PTA has an extremely varied and no bar taste in movies, so I'd say it's true with a mix of hyperbole.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on April 28, 2020, 02:33:25 PM
Quote from: Tdog on April 28, 2020, 11:23:45 AM
Quote from: jviness02 on April 28, 2020, 10:44:18 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on April 27, 2020, 09:46:36 PM
https://twitter.com/GoBrownRanger/status/1254922686599438336

Did that actually happen?  I say probably not.

PTA has an extremely varied and no bar taste in movies, so I'd say it's true with a mix of hyperbole.

This isn't directed at you, I know you're just showing us the tweet and mean nothing by it, but I've been reading the man's interviews for two decades. When has he ever pontificated with wording like "the power of cinema"? He'll giggle and say he'd put Ted up against anything, but he's never been one to pontificate which is why I believe this is bullshit.

And for the record, I enjoy Endgame(saw it more than once in theaters)and enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than Ted or Big Daddy. This isn't about me believing  PTA is above this or feeling butt hurt that he might like something deemed "less". The man can have terrible taste. That doesn't bother me, but this just seems like an out and out lie. It doesn't sound like anything he'd ever say.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on April 28, 2020, 02:43:30 PM
Does Instagram Live stuff get recorded?  Seems easy enough to verify if so.  I don't think we need to burn a lot of calories over it, though.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on April 28, 2020, 03:04:16 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on April 28, 2020, 02:43:30 PM
Does Instagram Live stuff get recorded?  Seems easy enough to verify if so.  I don't think we need to burn a lot of calories over it, though.

The burning calories bit gave me a good LAUGH. I admit it totally comes off that I'm much more upset about this than I am. I'm bored in the quarantine. Maybe it's Cabin Fever?

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: polkablues on April 28, 2020, 03:18:22 PM
To be clear, Downey wasn't saying that PTA thinks that Endgame demonstrates "the power of cinema," but that audience reactions to it do. Says nothing at all about what PTA may or may not think about the movie itself.

But also, the dude's got 4 kids between 14 and 6 years old. He's probably seen the movie 30 times by now.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on April 28, 2020, 09:28:58 PM
Just to burn one more calorie:

Hollywood Reporter:  "The Russo Bros. Reveal New 'Avengers' Secrets (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/new-avengers-stories-shared-by-russo-bros-robert-downey-jr-1292174)"

QuoteDowney shared an anecdote in which he talked to director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, The Master), who revealed that when he saw Avengers: Endgame, he recorded fan reactions in the theater to remind him of "the power of cinema" and its unifying aspect.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on April 29, 2020, 06:26:36 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on April 28, 2020, 09:28:58 PM
Just to burn one more calorie:

Hollywood Reporter:  "The Russo Bros. Reveal New 'Avengers' Secrets (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/new-avengers-stories-shared-by-russo-bros-robert-downey-jr-1292174)"

QuoteDowney shared an anecdote in which he talked to director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, The Master), who revealed that when he saw Avengers: Endgame, he recorded fan reactions in the theater to remind him of "the power of cinema" and its unifying aspect.

Welp, I guess I am wrong!
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on April 30, 2020, 02:48:24 PM
I guess he better like Marvel because with the way things are looking now, he may not have the opportunity to direct anything but a Marvel movie.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on July 29, 2020, 08:49:51 PM
contextless will it be counted do you think

https://www.twitter.com/UpstreamColor/status/1288646928448684032?cxt=HHwWgICosbnjmOIjAAAA
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on August 01, 2020, 09:58:08 PM
Quote from: jenkins on July 29, 2020, 08:49:51 PM
contextless will it be counted do you think

https://www.twitter.com/UpstreamColor/status/1288646928448684032?cxt=HHwWgICosbnjmOIjAAAA

Didn't he say this in the middle of his rant about strangling women? The guy is a monster.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on August 01, 2020, 10:34:13 PM
yes. he also compared himself to Frank T.J. Mackey, in a joking manner. and he wasn't throwing out a lot of movie references. he listed the only possible timetravel movie superior to Primer as Somewhere in Time, which really tells you that he doesn't watch a lot of movies

i confess to having followed what Carruth called a "first act" and "entertaining." ngl, i feel really dirty about it. he really left me feeling sick, although following the conversation was my own fault. he wasn't actually calling himself a strangler he was intending to illustrate nonliteral interpretations of words. he wasn't demonstrating a lighter side, god no, he was just demonstrating another side. on this side he was the intellectual superior, of course. that was his driving force. he mentioned that Upstream Colors should be taught in college. he considered that part of a conversation in which he was wedging his perspective against his restraining order

frankly, he also said what i wish not to repeat, and was ugly to mention, concerning personal details. the whole time he missed the point to let go of his past relationship. how gross to say if she's bad then he isn't. just how very gross. and if the restraining order was about him trying too hard, well there he went trying too hard in front of everybody

it was a sour act and his fans, like all real fans, are a problem too, since they say his meltdown was as opaque and complex as his movies. they compliment his achievement and ponder if it's part of a big art project, with everybody who replied playing a role. as if that justifies his behavior! and opaque, complex--what bullshit. such a forced interpretation, which would be what would make him a winner in a foul game

also from a larger perspective he is indeed a real person with his own inner fights as all the rest of us. i myself have to be cautious about schadenfreude. may his true struggle be dealt with a human way, and perhaps this can mean there will be no second act
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on August 02, 2020, 10:19:53 PM
Quote from: jenkins on August 01, 2020, 10:34:13 PM
yes. he also compared himself to Frank T.J. Mackey, in a joking manner. and he wasn't throwing out a lot of movie references. he listed the only possible timetravel movie superior to Primer as Somewhere in Time, which really tells you that he doesn't watch a lot of movies

i confess to having followed what Carruth called a "first act" and "entertaining." ngl, i feel really dirty about it. he really left me feeling sick, although following the conversation was my own fault. he wasn't actually calling himself a strangler he was intending to illustrate nonliteral interpretations of words. he wasn't demonstrating a lighter side, god no, he was just demonstrating another side. on this side he was the intellectual superior, of course. that was his driving force. he mentioned that Upstream Colors should be taught in college. he considered that part of a conversation in which he was wedging his perspective against his restraining order

frankly, he also said what i wish not to repeat, and was ugly to mention, concerning personal details. the whole time he missed the point to let go of his past relationship. how gross to say if she's bad then he isn't. just how very gross. and if the restraining order was about him trying too hard, well there he went trying too hard in front of everybody

it was a sour act and his fans, like all real fans, are a problem too, since they say his meltdown was as opaque and complex as his movies. they compliment his achievement and ponder if it's part of a big art project, with everybody who replied playing a role. as if that justifies his behavior! and opaque, complex--what bullshit. such a forced interpretation, which would be what would make him a winner in a foul game

also from a larger perspective he is indeed a real person with his own inner fights as all the rest of us. i myself have to be cautious about schadenfreude. may his true struggle be dealt with a human way, and perhaps this can mean there will be no second act

He allegedly strangled Amy Seimetz which is why he brought up strangling women. That apparently was one of the many reasons she filed for a restraining order. It's also fucked up that he did all this the week her new movie was released. 

I agree, he is a human being and we don't know the full story. Hopefully he gets help and she gets peace.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on August 02, 2020, 10:32:47 PM
Quote from: jviness02 on August 02, 2020, 10:19:53 PM

He allegedly strangled Amy Seimetz which is why he brought up strangling women. That apparently was one of the many reasons she filed for a restraining order.

accurate. but he wasn't confessing to strangling women he was distorting the perspective

there are lots of particulars to sort though it's true, but a sort of baseline problem here is the entirety of the conduct itself
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jenkins on August 13, 2020, 05:58:43 PM
https://twitter.com/DougLovesMovies/status/1291929043818823680

he's saying he watched it with Sarah Silverman i think
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on August 17, 2020, 05:14:29 PM
Conan O'Brien (whose podcast schtick, I've come to realize, I'm completely tired of) talks to Maya Rudolph.  He gushes about PTA during the wrap-up around the 1-hr mark.

https://omny.fm/shows/conan-o-brien-needs-a-friend/maya-rudolph (https://omny.fm/shows/conan-o-brien-needs-a-friend/maya-rudolph)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Shughes on August 30, 2020, 09:00:55 PM
Xavier Dolan mentions PTA in a recorded Q&A that plays after his latest film Matthias & Maxime (very good and worth checking out), which is currently streaming on Mubi.com.

One of the questions is about other filmmakers Dolan admires and his first pick is PTA. He said he loves his world's, and that every film was different, and that PTA always surprises him.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on September 01, 2020, 08:43:17 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on August 17, 2020, 05:14:29 PM
Conan O'Brien (whose podcast schtick, I've come to realize, I'm completely tired of) talks to Maya Rudolph.  He gushes about PTA during the wrap-up around the 1-hr mark.

https://omny.fm/shows/conan-o-brien-needs-a-friend/maya-rudolph (https://omny.fm/shows/conan-o-brien-needs-a-friend/maya-rudolph)

Really? That's weird. Surprised she likes him.


All joking aside, this is actually really cool because they don't really talk about each other much in interviews!
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: kingfan011 on September 01, 2020, 09:37:56 PM
Quote from: jviness02 on September 01, 2020, 08:43:17 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on August 17, 2020, 05:14:29 PM
Conan O'Brien (whose podcast schtick, I've come to realize, I'm completely tired of) talks to Maya Rudolph.  He gushes about PTA during the wrap-up around the 1-hr mark.

https://omny.fm/shows/conan-o-brien-needs-a-friend/maya-rudolph (https://omny.fm/shows/conan-o-brien-needs-a-friend/maya-rudolph)

Really? That's weird. Surprised she likes him.


All joking aside, this is actually really cool because they don't really talk about each other much in interviews!

That is true they make sure to almost never talk about each other in interviews
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Lewton on September 10, 2020, 02:12:57 PM
A couple of recent PTA-related tweets from M. Night Shyamalan:

[tweet]1301293121003761665[/tweet]

[tweet]1279047003255844864[/tweet]
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on October 22, 2020, 07:44:17 PM
Woman From a Magazine Chats With HAIM

QuoteActually, HAIM's creative synergy with the storied director is obvious enough. "From the day we met him, it was just family vibes," says Alana. "Especially because he's with Maya," Danielle adds. "I think there's just such a mutual connection — we love a lot of the same shit." Boogie Nights was, after all, set on HAIM home turf. "Not that we were into porn," Alana laughs. "But it was fucking everywhere in the Valley."

There are good times to come. As well as a more longform collab between Alana and Anderson. In the meantime, though, it's all about staying at home on Facetime.

Everything's going to be alright. Put some music on. Make sure you're registered. Call your sisters. Definitely rewatch Boogie Nights. "I don't really understand how it's all going to work," says Danielle, "but I'm hopeful."

Source (https://www.papermag.com/haim-america-2648427549.html)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on October 23, 2020, 02:18:44 AM
Adam Sandler talks about making PDL with Jason Batman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4galBHXMF1VQuyY8TMv6fd?si=09RQIJM-Ri6LbAUjlYjBgg

We've pretty much heard all of this before, but it sounds like all three of those guys would love to work with PTA. Who wouldn't?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on November 29, 2020, 11:40:22 AM
Lesley Manville: 'I was always quite savvy' (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/nov/29/lesley-manville-i-was-always-quite-savvy)

QuoteIn 2016, the director Paul Thomas Anderson called Manville to ask her if she would be interested in playing Cyril in Phantom Thread. "He said, 'Have a look at the script, if you've got a minute.'" She laughs. "If I've got a minute!" She had a minute, called him back, "and that was it, in the bag." Anderson came to London to meet her, bringing Daniel Day-Lewis with him. "We had a great night out. There was a little honesty bar up in the lounge of the hotel they were staying in. So we went out for dinner, came back and we raided the gins in the honesty bar. I mean, it was such a good night. I just thought, oh my God, in one fell swoop, I've got two incredible men in my life, who I just adored."

QuoteManville thought about going to the parties after the ceremony, but Paul Thomas Anderson put her off. "I said to Paul, 'What's it going to be like at the Vanity Fair party?' He said, 'It's going to be like this, only it's going to be full of models.' I said, 'Oh, come on, let's not go'." Instead, she went for dinner with Anderson, his partner Maya Rudolph, Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead, who had composed the film's score, her sister Diana, and Alfie. "We sat in this lounge and had cocktails and omelettes. It was just lovely. It was perfect." She flew back to Britain, landed on Tuesday morning, and was in the theatre that night.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: kingfan011 on November 29, 2020, 12:23:50 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on November 29, 2020, 11:40:22 AM
Lesley Manville: 'I was always quite savvy' (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/nov/29/lesley-manville-i-was-always-quite-savvy)

QuoteIn 2016, the director Paul Thomas Anderson called Manville to ask her if she would be interested in playing Cyril in Phantom Thread. "He said, 'Have a look at the script, if you've got a minute.'" She laughs. "If I've got a minute!" She had a minute, called him back, "and that was it, in the bag." Anderson came to London to meet her, bringing Daniel Day-Lewis with him. "We had a great night out. There was a little honesty bar up in the lounge of the hotel they were staying in. So we went out for dinner, came back and we raided the gins in the honesty bar. I mean, it was such a good night. I just thought, oh my God, in one fell swoop, I've got two incredible men in my life, who I just adored."

QuoteManville thought about going to the parties after the ceremony, but Paul Thomas Anderson put her off. "I said to Paul, 'What's it going to be like at the Vanity Fair party?' He said, 'It's going to be like this, only it's going to be full of models.' I said, 'Oh, come on, let's not go'." Instead, she went for dinner with Anderson, his partner Maya Rudolph, Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead, who had composed the film's score, her sister Diana, and Alfie. "We sat in this lounge and had cocktails and omelettes. It was just lovely. It was perfect." She flew back to Britain, landed on Tuesday morning, and was in the theatre that night.


For whatever weirdness that was between DDL and PTA (and I still maintain there was some awkwardness during the press run) Vicky and Manville seem to adore him. Manville still talks him up in every interview she gives.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alma on November 30, 2020, 08:53:38 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on November 29, 2020, 11:40:22 AM
Lesley Manville: 'I was always quite savvy' (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/nov/29/lesley-manville-i-was-always-quite-savvy)

Great interview. She's always been such a good actress, it's nice to see she's getting better roles than ever.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tdog on November 30, 2020, 09:22:00 AM

Quote
For whatever weirdness that was between DDL and PTA (and I still maintain there was some awkwardness during the press run) Vicky and Manville seem to adore him. Manville still talks him up in every interview she gives.

I figure DDL was just mentally checked out and just really didn't want to do any promotion. He did 2 Q and A's and that was it for the whole press tour as far as I remember.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on December 10, 2020, 11:11:54 AM
Good ol' Melora!

https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/being-human-is-heroic-melora-walters-on-waterlily-jaguar-drowning-magnolia-and-more

Relevant bits:

It's a rare privilege to talk to someone whose performance is the heart of a film I consider among my all-time favorites, and that is certainly true of "Magnolia." How did you approach portraying an abuse survivor and addict in a way that subverts caricature at every turn?

For me, as an actress, it's very important with any character I play to make her as human as possible, and to access anything I have within me, even if it's archetypal, which we've shared since the times of our ancestors. My job as an actress is to make someone human, not to "act." Paul Thomas Anderson is a genius, and when I read his script, I decided to just give him everything.

I know people who have battled addiction and survived, as well as people who have killed themselves. At that point, Philip Seymour Hoffman was very much alive, but I knew people before that who had a similar fate. I grew up in many different places, and I've seen people at their high points and low points. People may suffer over something that would make you and I scratch our heads, but you're not a bad person if it eats you alive. If you research trauma from a Jungian psychological point of view, there is an inevitable emptiness within damaged individuals that was never nurtured or helped. These people have a constant need for something that they can't believe in, even if it presented itself, as it does in the form of John C. Reilly's character, although Claudia does go for it in the end.

There's a constant voice in your head telling you, "I don't deserve this." Jung talks about addiction in terms of a need for spiritual connection, but again, I feel that is very simply a need to feel that you're connected, you're loved and you're nurtured. In her book, The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption, Marie-Louise von Franz writes of how people who at a very early age lose their mother—it's normally the mother, but it could be a father—often have an emptiness within them as a result of this loss. It's very hard to operate in the world when nothing feels safe. I think that's essentially what happened to Claudia.

When I made "Boogie Nights," the other actors and I were invited onto actual sets to see what the world of the film we were portraying was like, but I didn't want to go. In the case of preparing for "Magnolia," I know people who were addicts, but I didn't want to go up to them and ask, "What's your story?", while watching their behavior and trying to emulate it. I wanted to get to the core, which I think is unconscious, and that oddly sets the real tone for this desperate isolation and alienation that cannot be filled.

Knowing people who have endured abuse, I have found myself in the position of John C. Reilly's character, attempting to care for someone who isn't ready for that connection.

Yeah, you can't function normally because everything is heightened. Everything feels like a life-or-death situation, which can also be a result of post-traumatic stress disorder. It's not a joke. Any minute, you feel as if a sniper shot or a bomb could go off. How do you make everything okay when that's what you know? I think what was so beautiful about Claudia, which Paul added in, was that she is oddly aware of this, when she screams at her father, "You think I'm a whore? I hate you!" There's a part of her brain that knows, and then there's that switch-off between the brain and the inherent feeling that this man is never going to love me.

I wrote a paper in college analyzing the aesthetics of that scene between Claudia and her father. The sunshine spilling onto him from your character's bedroom window almost resembles an interrogation light.

Yes. There's no resolution there. Later on, when he sees the picture of me as a little girl and his wife—my mother—confronts him, he's like, "I can't remember." Though it really does help when people actually say, "I'm sorry," it's heartbreaking because even if he were to apologize, the damage and the scar tissue cannot be taken away. Psychologically, you cannot remove the fact that someone who was supposed to take care of you wrecked you.

Speaking of heightened, the film's operatic nature is beautifully expressed in your coffee scene with the officer, where the brewing tension is accentuated by the "Habanera" from Bizet's "Carmen."

Though the opera wasn't playing when we were filming, I do remember thinking as Claudia during that scene, 'What am I supposed to do that's normal here because nothing is normal?' Life during the time of the coronavirus is a heightened state, and I think we're all seeing that nothing is normal, nothing is safe. The possibility of death is too close, which is also what my character senses in "Drowning". It is very hard to live a normal life with death sitting next to you. We all know that it's going to be there in our future, but it's difficult to function normally when that fact is constantly preoccupying our minds.

It's the awareness that anything you hold onto in life is intangible, which is philosophically a reality. Heraclitus talks about that when he says, "No man steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." If you really choose to believe that, I think it could shatter you. When someone's senses are so heightened and their emotions are too on the surface, that's how it feels.

Just like the assassination in "Nashville" and the earthquake in "Short Cuts," the rain of frogs in "Magnolia" illuminates our interconnectedness by disrupting the routines of our lives, just as COVID-19 has for the entire human race.

Exactly. In the case of the virus, you are told what to do. You wear a mask, clean your hands, take a shower when you go home or you gargle with salt water. There are a few factual websites that are documenting the spread of the virus on a daily basis, and I've found myself keeping track of the numbers. Newscasters can say whatever they want, but a number is inarguable, as is an increase or decrease. This virus has been like a boulder. It's just going down the hill taking everything out, but that's the essence of nature. There's no emotion involved. A hurricane isn't like, 'Hooray! I just knocked out New Orleans!' It's just a hurricane. The fires in California have no emotional attachment to what they're destroying. That's very frightening. The frogs raining from the sky at the end of "Magnolia" very much elicit that feeling of incredulity we've been living with this year.

The final shot holding on your face as you look at the viewer and smile has a mystery to it that is evocative of the girl (Valeria Ciangottini) turning toward the camera at the end of Fellini's "La Dolce Vita."

Oh, I love the end of "La Dolce Vita"! Paul wrote in the script that Claudia looks at the camera and smiles at the end. For me, that was the most difficult scene, because how do you go from abject hopelessness to hope? But I really think the underlying theme of Paul's films, which is so beautiful, is love. There's the notion that each moment of love provides a possibility of hope. Even in "There Will Be Blood," after Daniel Plainview has "drank the milkshake," and says, "I'm finished!", there's something so beautiful about him sitting there in the midst of destruction. He realizes that he can't get more in blood than he is now, and to me, he has a moment of acceptance. Maybe there's hope for him, now that he's finally woken up. Of course, Daniel Day-Lewis can do no wrong, so that combination of him and Paul is the very definition of pure magic.

...and later...

I recently analyzed "The Master" in a virtual film class, and I like how your presence is felt in that picture, even though you remain offscreen.

Paul asked me to sing a version of "A-Tisket-A-Tasket," and I never say no to Paul. [laughs] "Melora?" "Yes, I'll do it!" "I haven't asked you yet." "That's okay—yes!" That's how I feel. I think that film is an incredible journey. I know he has all these references that he drew upon, but in the end, where Joaquin Phoenix's character is with that woman, all you see is this young man searching for love and acceptance who will do anything to have it.

His character is also reaching out for a connection while literally trying not to get submerged in the process.

Yeah, I think it is just an incredible film. It's a "master"-piece.

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Post by: wilberfan on December 10, 2020, 12:06:46 PM
Quote from: eward on December 10, 2020, 11:11:54 AM
Good ol' Melora!

...I really think the underlying theme of Paul's films, which is so beautiful, is love.

Good ol' Melora, indeed!  That was wise, wonderful and profound.  Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: Drill on January 14, 2021, 12:37:03 PM
(https://preview.redd.it/4n1hdneuw7b61.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8c4a2304acc3c61c17a12199e71ad1bbb696bb76)
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Post by: kingfan011 on January 14, 2021, 02:49:55 PM
Quote from: Drill on January 14, 2021, 12:37:03 PM
(https://preview.redd.it/4n1hdneuw7b61.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8c4a2304acc3c61c17a12199e71ad1bbb696bb76)

Who is saying this and where is it from.
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Post by: Alethia on January 14, 2021, 03:19:29 PM
It's Fincher baby
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Post by: jenkins on January 14, 2021, 03:22:29 PM
Quote from: kingfan011 on January 14, 2021, 02:49:55 PM
Quote from: Drill on January 14, 2021, 12:37:03 PM
(https://preview.redd.it/4n1hdneuw7b61.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8c4a2304acc3c61c17a12199e71ad1bbb696bb76)

Who is saying this and where is it from.

sourced (https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/david-fincher-rolling-stone-interview-1096204/)
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Post by: jenkins on January 14, 2021, 03:26:27 PM
they previously settled it (http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/5949)

QuoteJust to clarify: My comments about Fincher and Fight Club were stupid. Wishing anyone testicular cancer isn't funny and I did end up seeing the film. I had a problem with the violence and the cruelty -- I just couldn't get past it -- blah blah blah....I wrote a letter to Fincher apologizing for my comments.....he was cool about it.
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Post by: wilberfan on January 14, 2021, 05:15:36 PM
Will Ferrell Talks 'August Blowout,' His First Adam McKay Collab Which Caught The Eye Of Paul Thomas Anderson (https://theplaylist.net/will-ferrell-august-blowout-adam-mckay-paul-thomas-anderson-20210113/)

QuoteThe relationship between Will Ferrell and Adam McKay is legendary. Combined, the duo worked on a number of already-iconic comedy films such as "Anchorman," "Step Brothers," and "Talledega Nights." But it's a film that was never made, titled "August Blowout," that might have been the most important collaboration between the duo.

Speaking on a recent edition of THR's Awards Chatter podcast, Ferrell talked about "Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga," and that film's Oscar chances, which seems very real given that the soundtrack is now officially a Grammy nominee. But during that interview, the actor talked about the genesis of his relationship with Adam McKay and how they attracted the help of Paul Thomas Anderson.

"We were actually hired on the same day ," said Ferrell about his partnership with McKay. "Obviously Adam as a writer. And we just started writing sketches together and realized we had a lot of the same comedy taste as well as working style which was to not overthink it, and just to work really fast and maybe look at it a second time, but for the most part, go with that first gut [instinct] "

He added, "I had turned to Adam and said, 'Would you ever want to write a feature together?' and he said, 'let's do it.'"

That film would become "August Blowout," a script for a comedy that never got made.

"We had written this script called 'August Blowout' that never got made, but really got passed around town," explained Ferrell. "This was kinda about a 'Glengarry Glenn Ross' meets a car dealership, meets, 'Used Cars.' It was about weird, horrible, eccentric car dealership guys and whatever that world is."

While the script didn't actually get a green light, "August Blowout" did gain the attention of noted comedy fan (especially with the works of Adam Sandler), Paul Thomas Anderson. And though 'Blowout' well, blew out, the friendship did turn prosperous.

"That was a nice calling card for our tone and kind of set the table for us," he explained. "I remember Paul Thomas Anderson had read that and said [to us], 'Wow, do you guys want to write something else?' and that's when the 'Anchorman' idea came around."

Now, wait, what? PTA asking Will Ferrell and Adam McKay if they potentially wanted to write something for him? Unfortunately, the interviewer doesn't follow up on any of that, nor asks any details about PTA's relationship to them, but this would have likely been circa the early aughts, and Anderson has started dating Maya Rudolph in 2001 when she was on "Saturday Night Live," so that's likely where all those connections were made.

Fortunately, the story is out there and in short, Anderson was so impressed with "August Blowout," he offered to help them make their next movie which turned out to be "Anchorman."

"[He] came and guest-wrote for a week on SNL," Ferrell explained back in 2017 on the Bill Simmons podcast. "And he sat down with us and he was like, 'I read that 'August Blowout.'"

"He's like, 'What if you guys wrote whatever you wanted to write, and I would shepherd it for you and kind of find out how to make it?' We were like, 'We'd do it. We'd do it in a heartbeat.' So that's when we wrote 'Anchorman.' So he was one of the guardian angels even though I think the first incarnation of that was maybe a little too weird for Paul."

The script would obviously go to Judd Apatow and the rest is history, but dare to dream that Paul Thomas Anderson could properly collaborate with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay one day. As for "Anchorman," well, it still took a minute for Hollywood to get interested, but once "Old School" became a hit, Dreamworks realized they had the option and decided to greenlight it soon after it lit up the box-office, Ferrell explained.

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Post by: kingfan011 on January 15, 2021, 04:29:11 PM
Interesting to see Paul's comments about Fight Club start to pop up again and how few people on the internet get the context. So many people don't seem to remember that his dad had just died of cancer when he saw it (which is why he made Magnolia) so of course he would react negatively for it. So many of the articles don't mention it either.
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Post by: wilberfan on February 27, 2021, 07:23:52 PM
Mary Lynn Rajskub Reveals How She Landed on Paul Thomas Anderson's Radar (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mary-lynn-rajskub-reveals-she-152739303.html)
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Post by: Alethia on February 27, 2021, 07:32:29 PM
That was, um, short.
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Post by: kingfan011 on March 02, 2021, 03:37:22 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on February 27, 2021, 07:23:52 PM
Mary Lynn Rajskub Reveals How She Landed on Paul Thomas Anderson's Radar (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mary-lynn-rajskub-reveals-she-152739303.html)

interesting never thought about how exacting some of those camera set ups are in the film.
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Post by: wilberfan on March 02, 2021, 07:01:51 PM
Katherine Waterston...discusses scoring a breakout role from Paul Thomas Anderson

https://youtu.be/TkQfApTSzxc

12:13 - How Waterston scored her role in Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice.
13:58 - Inherent Vice changed everything for Waterston.
16:10 - How Anderson's approach to casting could improve the process.
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Post by: jviness02 on March 03, 2021, 01:33:40 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on February 27, 2021, 07:23:52 PM
Mary Lynn Rajskub Reveals How She Landed on Paul Thomas Anderson's Radar (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mary-lynn-rajskub-reveals-she-152739303.html)

She says in the interview herself that 30 was a lot for him which got me thinking.  I asked two friends who both worked on TWBB and The Master and they both (separately) guessed he probably averaged 7-10 takes a set up.
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Post by: Drenk on March 03, 2021, 03:21:07 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on March 02, 2021, 07:01:51 PM
Katherine Waterston...discusses scoring a breakout role from Paul Thomas Anderson

https://youtu.be/TkQfApTSzxc

12:13 - How Waterston scored her role in Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice.
13:58 - Inherent Vice changed everything for Waterston.
16:10 - How Anderson's approach to casting could improve the process.

What a breakthrough for the daughter of Sam Waterston.
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Post by: jenkins on March 03, 2021, 03:26:01 AM
it's weird to think of PTA as the offspring of a cultural emblem without judging him, but that's the entire pta fanbase
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on March 03, 2021, 02:04:46 PM
Quote from: jviness02 on March 03, 2021, 01:33:40 AM
She says in the interview herself that 30 was a lot for him which got me thinking.  I asked two friends who both worked on TWBB and The Master and they both (separately) guessed he probably averaged 7-10 takes a set up.

So interesting to see that.  I estimated 8-12 on Soggy.
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Post by: kingfan011 on March 03, 2021, 03:52:06 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on March 03, 2021, 02:04:46 PM
Quote from: jviness02 on March 03, 2021, 01:33:40 AM
She says in the interview herself that 30 was a lot for him which got me thinking.  I asked two friends who both worked on TWBB and The Master and they both (separately) guessed he probably averaged 7-10 takes a set up.

So interesting to see that.  I estimated 8-12 on Soggy.

I guess PDL was really technical.
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Post by: Drenk on March 03, 2021, 04:01:07 PM
Just that particular long take with a lot of stuff going on at the same time.
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Post by: wilberfan on March 06, 2021, 12:51:25 AM
Costume Designer Mark Bridges Talks Broadway Beginnings, 'News Of The World' & The Time He Won A Jet Ski At The Oscars (https://deadline.com/video/news-of-the-world-costume-designer-mark-bridges-universal-pictures-production-value-interview/)

QuoteOne of his first big breaks was when he was hired for Hard Eight by a 25-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson. "[We] had very little money for Hard Eight, but had a good time making it. It was a lot of fun. We lived at the casino that we shot at. Of course, we didn't have much money, but it was shot in Reno, and at the time, Reno was really the land of thrift stores," Bridges notes. "So, it was perfect. I needed clothes for no money, and they had all the resources right there."

In his relationship with the auteur, Bridges found longevity. In the decades since Hard Eight, the pair have reteamed on seven other acclaimed features—including Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread. And recently, they joined forces once again on a highly anticipated film that has yet to be titled, starring Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie and Cooper Hoffman. "It's 25 years we've been working together," Bridges marvels, "so that's exciting that we're still going at this point. Paul and I work the way that we have always worked."
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Post by: Tdog on March 06, 2021, 02:00:21 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on March 06, 2021, 12:51:25 AM
Costume Designer Mark Bridges Talks Broadway Beginnings, 'News Of The World' & The Time He Won A Jet Ski At The Oscars (https://deadline.com/video/news-of-the-world-costume-designer-mark-bridges-universal-pictures-production-value-interview/)

QuoteOne of his first big breaks was when he was hired for Hard Eight by a 25-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson. "[We] had very little money for Hard Eight, but had a good time making it. It was a lot of fun. We lived at the casino that we shot at. Of course, we didn't have much money, but it was shot in Reno, and at the time, Reno was really the land of thrift stores," Bridges notes. "So, it was perfect. I needed clothes for no money, and they had all the resources right there."

In his relationship with the auteur, Bridges found longevity. In the decades since Hard Eight, the pair have reteamed on seven other acclaimed features—including Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread. And recently, they joined forces once again on a highly anticipated film that has yet to be titled, starring Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie and Cooper Hoffman. "It's 25 years we've been working together," Bridges marvels, "so that's exciting that we're still going at this point. Paul and I work the way that we have always worked."

I watched "Blow" just because Mark Bridges did the costumes for it!
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Post by: Alethia on March 30, 2021, 07:54:59 PM
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Post by: Alethia on April 13, 2021, 03:35:22 PM
Today on Someone Else's Movie

Devereux Milburn and Norm Wilner discuss Punch-Drunk Love

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/devereux-milburn-on-punch-drunk-love
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Post by: wilberfan on May 03, 2021, 10:45:21 PM
Screen grab from the latest Almodovar (short?)  The Human Voice.

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Post by: wilberfan on May 05, 2021, 10:05:44 PM
Mark Kermode's favourite movie soundtracks of all time (https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/mark-kermode-favourite-movie-soundtracks-knopfler-greenwood/)

QuoteThis ability for music to capture the atmosphere of a time and place in cinema was a factor that he eulogised once again in There Will Be Blood. For the Paul Thomas Anderson story of oilmen clashing and cultist religions, he declared: "I remember watching the film and about 20-30 minutes in thinking, 'I'm not distinguishing between the sound effects and the music.' It all sounded like all the sound was coming out of the landscape, that is the highest compliment."

For There Will Be Blood, Johnny Greenwood, who scored the film, even declared that Anderson "even cut some of the film to the music which is so the wrong way round." The result is a hand in glove marriage of sound and vision that Kermode found enthralling and perfectly simpatico in equal measure.
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Post by: wilberfan on May 07, 2021, 11:11:40 PM
ND/NF Review: Moon, 66 Questions is a Touching Story of Father-Daughter Healing, With Dance and Tarot (https://thefilmstage.com/nd-nf-review-moon-66-questions-is-a-touching-story-of-father-daughter-healing-with-dance-and-tarot/)

Quote...so many sequences in this film simply observe her engaging in mundane home-care tasks (cleaning, tidying, and dressing) with an arm's length, yet-caring gaze evoking Chantal Akerman. (The late filmmaker is thanked by Lentzou as an inspiration in the end credits, along with––in a nice surprise––Paul Thomas Anderson, who provided script help as the film passed through various international development labs.)
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Post by: wilberfan on May 07, 2021, 11:22:26 PM
'Underground Railroad': Barry Jenkins Was Influenced By Paul Thomas Anderson, Wong Kar-Wai, Claire Denis & More For His Amazon Series (https://theplaylist.net/barry-jenkins-underground-railroad-influences-20210506/)

QuoteSpeaking to Sight & Sound, Barry Jenkins gave a list of filmmakers that inspired him during very specific moments in his 10-episode Amazon series, "The Underground Railroad." In the piece, the author of the novel that inspired the series, Colson Whitehead, said that he was sold on Jenkins as the right guy to adapt the story when the filmmaker mentioned references like Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" and "The Master."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: modage on May 10, 2021, 01:20:46 PM
Fun fact: I gave Barry Jenkins a blu-ray of The Master in exchange for helping swap a ticket to the NYFF screening of Moonlight.
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Post by: Drill on May 19, 2021, 10:10:11 AM
Lol
https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/1395019888327073793
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Post by: wilberfan on May 31, 2021, 08:40:54 PM
Podcast interview with Este and Alana Haim.  (PTA-discussion begins at 46:00 mark.)

Audio & Transcript (https://www.thefader.com/2021/05/31/haim-on-tears-at-snl-london-memories-and-making-paul-thomas-anderson-their-muse)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on June 08, 2021, 07:26:06 PM
https://youtu.be/hY2x9kkz2hc
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tdog on June 09, 2021, 04:51:35 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on June 08, 2021, 07:26:06 PM
https://youtu.be/hY2x9kkz2hc

I'd love to see them work together again!
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Post by: kingfan011 on June 09, 2021, 10:31:10 AM
I remember hearing a story that Cheadle was going to walk off the set the first day because he thought Anderson was crazy and Phillip Bake Hall talked him back. I can't remember where I heard this though.
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Post by: wilder on June 22, 2021, 07:43:27 PM
discussion w/CK starts @ 41 min

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Post by: jenkins on June 22, 2021, 08:09:43 PM
first they discuss TWBB. Plainview isn't loveless he's lonely, and his loneliness decays his spirit. plus he's wrapped up in success, and he puts everything into business instead of human connection. then they discuss The Master and the hosts compare it to Brokeback Mountain. Louis CK says it's not about homoeroticism but confusion, and they're insane. it's not an allegory it's just a delightful concept

I skipped out then but it's rather standard PTA gushing
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Post by: Reel on June 29, 2021, 09:23:54 AM
Louie's first podcast appearance back was to be on this show to talk about Kubrick, last week they did PTA!

Warning: I have not watched this and you may find Joe and Raanan's opinions to be very shitty and annoying at times

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o1T54clBvxA
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Axolotl on June 29, 2021, 11:53:59 AM
Quote from: Reelist on June 29, 2021, 09:23:54 AM
Louie's first podcast appearance back was to be on this show to talk about Kubrick, last week they did PTA!

Warning: I have not watched this and you may find Joe and Raanan's opinions to be very shitty and annoying at times

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o1T54clBvxA
Is that the Joe List? Joe "Cruisin' Joe" List? Joe List the handicapped bathroom (or as he likes to call it "master bedroom") connoisseur?

Edit: Louie's pretty eloquent and accurate about TWBB.
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Post by: Reel on June 29, 2021, 04:57:57 PM
Yeah hahaha I forgot about that one. I'm gonna wait awhile before I listen to this
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Post by: wilberfan on July 14, 2021, 12:53:08 AM
Vicky Krieps: 'I lit a candle every day to not be nominated for an Oscar' (//http://Vicky%20Krieps:%20'I%20lit%20a%20candle%20every%20day%20to%20not%20be%20nominated%20for%20an%20Oscar')

QuoteShe had a decent career by the time Paul Thomas Anderson came calling, but Phantom Thread – nominated for six Oscars, including best picture – really powered her towards the front of the stage. Krieps plays a waitress who gets dragged into the unhealthy obsessions of Day-Lewis's sinister fashion designer. Anderson later told her he had been drawn to her face in the decent German film The Chambermaid Lynn.

"And I said: 'But why?' And he said: 'I thought I knew you.' That's not possible. I didn't star in a movie before. So now what we think happened is that he saw me in A Most Wanted Man with Philip Seymour Hoffman. I play a very small part in it and I liked to believe I was being invisible. So it's really interesting that he remembers me from a movie where I was trying to be invisible!"

I had read that she deliberately avoided Day-Lewis before they shot the scene where his character first encounters hers in the dining room of a chilly hotel. This seemed in keeping with Day-Lewis's famously dedicated approach.

"I think I took it a little bit too seriously," she says, laughing. "I thought: this is the game. Because I thought my character shouldn't see him, I was looking at my feet and at the ground. I was hiding and running away because I thought that was the game. Later on he said to me: 'I got so scared. I was wondering: who is this woman? Why is she not looking at me?' "

So, for all the seriousness of his approach, he has a good sense of humour.

"Oh, yes. Very much. I think he is partly Irish, yes? Would you say the Irish have a sense of humour?"

Well, we certainly like to make that boast at every opportunity.

"Oh, I would say they do."

That was a strange year for the Oscars. Many felt Phantom Thread was a little too recherché for the Academy, but it ended up scoring six nominations. When fans of the film caught their breath they noted that, whereas Day-Lewis and Leslie Manville, who plays the anti-hero's sister, were on the list, Krieps's breakthrough turn had been left out. That now feels like a snub.

"I remember Daniel saying to me that he was angry I was not nominated," she says. "I looked at him and I smiled. I had started lighting a candle every morning to not be nominated. And I know I know sounds weird, but I was scared of it. I wasn't sure what it would do to me. I felt it was sort of a poison."

She will not be able to avoid attention for ever. The current year is looking like a standout one for her. Bergman Island brings highbrow attention. Old plays to the mainstream attention. Is this all part of a plan?

"Oh no," she says. "I think if I had a plan it would be the end of my job. How does an artist have a plan?
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Post by: wilberfan on July 23, 2021, 02:07:58 PM
MAGNOLIA shout-out in Ted Lasso, Season 2, Episode 1 (https://www.reddit.com/r/paulthomasanderson/comments/opxwiu/magnolia_1999_reference_in_the_new_ted_lasso/).  (Links to Reddit post.)

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Post by: Yes on July 24, 2021, 12:16:09 AM
https://twitter.com/benschwartz_/status/1418796593755697152?s=21
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Post by: wilberfan on July 24, 2021, 02:05:44 AM
Just got home from same.  The affection they have for each other was delightful.  Warm hugs at beginning and end. 

Spoke for an hour following a really nice 35mm print of MIDNIGHT RUN.  Told some great stories--including one that "Marty" (as Paul calls him) asks Paul to tell about the bowling alley in TWBB.  You could tell Paul was a huge fan of the film in particular and the director in general.  No Q's from the audience.  (Thank God.)  Fun hearing how Grodin was cast primarily because he could go toe-to-toe with DeNiro and not get rattled.

Paul offered that "Marty was the first guy in Hollywood that was nice to me.".  Marty responded, "Yeah, and you were about seven."    "I was 17, actually..."
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Post by: wilberfan on July 24, 2021, 02:43:38 AM
https://twitter.com/georgenich0las/status/1418800307375648780
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Post by: Tdog on July 24, 2021, 06:03:08 AM
Would have loved to be there but I live in Europe. Hope somebody recorded this.
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Post by: wilberfan on July 24, 2021, 09:41:32 AM
There was a woman sitting near me in the back of the house that made an official video recording (with a DSLR) of the discussion.  I specifically approached her after and asked if they make these recordings available anywhere and she said "sometimes (https://americancinematheque.com/ac-vault/)", but that they're essentially for the archives. 

This puzzles me.  You'd think they'd want that stuff out there--unless it spooks participants, or they think people won't show up if they know they can watch it online in a few days?

I (we) should try and get more details next time one of us is in attendance.
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Post by: wilberfan on July 24, 2021, 10:17:07 AM
One of mine. (Pardon the potato quality.)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tdog on July 24, 2021, 10:49:41 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on July 24, 2021, 09:41:32 AM
There was a woman sitting near me in the back of the house that made an official video recording (with a DSLR) of the discussion.  I specifically approached her after and asked if they make these recordings available anywhere and she said "sometimes (https://americancinematheque.com/ac-vault/)", but that they're essentially for the archives. 

This puzzles me.  You'd think they'd want that stuff out there--unless it spooks participants, or they think people won't show up if they know they can watch it online in a few days?

I (we) should try and get more details next time one of us is in attendance.

Hmmmm I might drop them a polite Email and see if they plan in releasing it. Great photo by the way!!!!!!

Oh a question Wilberfan: Did Brest talk specifically about why he stopped making movies or is there a one word answer for that?
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Post by: wilberfan on July 24, 2021, 10:59:56 AM
Quote from: Tdog on July 24, 2021, 10:49:41 AM
Oh a question Wilberfan: Did Brest talk specifically about why he stopped making movies or is there a one word answer for that?

Didn't come up, no....  I certainly saw all his films back in the day, but never followed his career, by name, that closely.  I just IMDB'd him--and just got your 'one word' joke.  :yabbse-grin: 

But excellent point!  Why did he stop making movies??  He had quite a run there!
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Post by: Tdog on July 24, 2021, 11:17:06 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on July 24, 2021, 10:59:56 AM
Quote from: Tdog on July 24, 2021, 10:49:41 AM
Oh a question Wilberfan: Did Brest talk specifically about why he stopped making movies or is there a one word answer for that?

Didn't come up, no....  I certainly saw all his films back in the day, but never followed his career, by name, that closely.  I just IMDB'd him--and just got your 'one word' joke.  :yabbse-grin: 

But excellent point!  Why did he stop making movies??  He had quite a run there!

I'd love to know why. I'm guessing he either couldn't get anything going after Gigli or else just decided "fuck it, I don't need this shit !". Maybe the answer lies somewhere in the middle.

From Wikipedia:
Brest wrote and directed Gigli (2003), starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.[9] During filming, production company Revolution Studios took creative control from him, resulting in a radically re-written and re-shot version of the original film being released.

Did they talk about PSH?
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Post by: Reel on July 24, 2021, 02:49:16 PM
Gigli is one of the best bad movies
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Post by: Find Your Magali on July 24, 2021, 05:26:50 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on July 23, 2021, 02:07:58 PM
MAGNOLIA shout-out in Ted Lasso, Season 2, Episode 1 (https://www.reddit.com/r/paulthomasanderson/comments/opxwiu/magnolia_1999_reference_in_the_new_ted_lasso/).  (Links to Reddit post.)

The initial Magnolia reference in SE2, E1 was great, in the same way the show is always dropping in cultural references.

Later, when "Wise Up" plays during a scene, I initially groaned at the obviousness of it all, but then realized that more than 95% of the Ted Lasso audience would never put 2+2 together and understand that was a second Magnolia reference.

Also, once there were two Magnolia references, I realized it was not a coincidence that the dead dog in the episode was named Earl.

This is something that happens.
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Post by: Drill on July 25, 2021, 07:30:28 PM
Here's a thorough recap:

https://twitter.com/mfrushmore/status/1419448824427290624
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Post by: wilberfan on July 25, 2021, 07:38:03 PM
Oooh, nice find.  An excellent write-up!   It feels like he didn't miss anything.  :yabbse-thumbup:
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Post by: kingfan011 on July 25, 2021, 08:57:14 PM
Out of all the stories that have been told in this Q&A what strikes me is how much a movie can be made in the editing room. I saw Midnight Run for the first time about a year ago with a good print in a screening room and I loved every second of it. But more specially I would have assumed this planned to the smallest detail. The clock work nature of the film is so tight and well thought out aside from being hysterical. You would have thought they had a script and they stuck to it religiously.
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Post by: wilberfan on August 03, 2021, 09:16:45 PM
Not a specific mention of PTA, but Ronson describes (in episode 2) of becoming obsessed with the strings in SUNNY by Boney M the first time he heard it in BOOGIE NIGHTS.  (No mention of it in the trailer, I don't think.  Just for reference.)

https://youtu.be/ILJH80RLu_Q

Series is on Apple+
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Post by: Find Your Magali on August 14, 2021, 09:52:21 AM
So many movie/pop culture references, but -- even beyond the double-Magnolia season premiere -- it seems there are a lot of nods to Paul Thomas Anderson
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Post by: Jeremy Blackman on August 22, 2021, 09:14:40 PM
Barely qualifies for this thread, but...

Screen Drafts, with guest Bryan Cogman (GoT writer), did a draft of 2007 films, and There Will Be Blood was definitely mentioned:

https://screendrafts.libsyn.com/2007-with-bryan-cogman-drea-clark-mark-rozeman

They also did a draft of 1999, and Magnolia makes that list. (They do spoil its ranking in the 2007 episode, FYI.)

https://screendrafts.libsyn.com/episode-1999
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Post by: Drill on September 08, 2021, 11:55:14 AM
QuoteOne oft-chatted-about possible project, however, has not yet materialized: a film with Paul Thomas Anderson, who publicly voiced his desire to work with Haddish at the 2018 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, where Haddish brought down the house during an 18-minute acceptance speech for her Best Supporting Actress win for "Girls Trip."

After an Anderson associate slipped Haddish his number at the event, the actress didn't dally: she called him the next day. The conversation was easy and fun, Haddish said, and Anderson was open to her ideas, asking her, "If you could do any kind of movie, what would it be?"

When they met up for lunch a few weeks later, Haddish said she had landed on one: a movie about the jazz scene in Los Angeles in the '40s and '50s. "You know how they got 'Harlem Nights'? I was like, 'What if we did "South Central Nights," like what South Central used to be? How LA was this place where you could come and be free, but it was still very segregated, and how that worked in the relationships, the interracial relationships and all that dynamic?"

While nothing has come from those meetings as of yet, Haddish says the pair are still talking — "We chop it up!" — and while she doesn't know what's going to happen in their potential partnership, she promises, "Something will happen, though."

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/09/tiffany-haddish-interview-the-card-counter-paul-schrader-1234662617/
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Post by: pynchonikon on September 09, 2021, 12:58:10 PM
https://twitter.com/IndieWire/status/1435924696059432962

https://twitter.com/IndieWire/status/1435965715765506050

I have no idea if PTA will eventually get to work with Haddish, but I strongly feel like the "peculiar" Greenwood refers to maybe has to do with the straight up horror genre (he also mentioned that a couple of years ago in an interview for Guardian:)
QuoteHe saw Anderson at the Prom, he says, "throwing out a hundred film ideas ... A horror film was something we discussed."
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Post by: Drill on September 12, 2021, 12:13:47 PM
QuoteIt took over two years and lunch with Anderson for Krieps to be able to "close the circle" on any anxieties and scepticisms borne from her first brush with Hollywood.

"I remember Paul looking at me from over a bowl of ramen in this really little restaurant, and suddenly he said to me, 'Vicky, I think we did a good movie.' And I said, 'Yes.'," she recalls. "It was really simple, but I think it was really important for both of us, after all this time, to just once, for us, say, 'Okay, I think we did a good job'."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/vicky-krieps-hollywood-return-survivor-old-bergman-island-1235011209/
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Post by: Alethia on September 12, 2021, 12:53:25 PM
Direct from the beach that makes you Old!!!!
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Post by: Alethia on October 15, 2021, 01:35:29 PM
And from that very same under-appreciated beach

https://twitter.com/lecinemaclub/status/1448367908564971526
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Post by: wilberfan on October 15, 2021, 07:10:51 PM
QuoteBOOGIE NIGHTS, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997
One of the most fun and playful films I know of. A pleasure to watch. A trip into entertainment and amusement, all extremely well-conceived and crafted.

That's my gal!
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Post by: ono on January 05, 2022, 04:45:18 PM
I can't believe this is the first time I've seen this clip.

https://youtu.be/hY2x9kkz2hc
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Yes on January 09, 2022, 03:52:31 AM
https://twitter.com/indyarts/status/1480090896234389507
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Post by: Tdog on January 09, 2022, 07:27:56 AM
Quote from: ono on January 05, 2022, 04:45:18 PM
I can't believe this is the first time I've seen this clip.

https://youtu.be/hY2x9kkz2hc

Can't believe they never worked together again. Did PTA possibly write The Worm storyline for Cheadle and Cheadle was like "fuck no"!?!
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Post by: jviness02 on January 09, 2022, 11:39:24 AM
Quote from: Tdog on January 09, 2022, 07:27:56 AM
Quote from: ono on January 05, 2022, 04:45:18 PM
I can't believe this is the first time I've seen this clip.

https://youtu.be/hY2x9kkz2hc

Can't believe they never worked together again. Did PTA possibly write The Worm storyline for Cheadle and Cheadle was like "fuck no"!?!

That's possible. Similar to how Cheadle's role in Boogie Nights was written for SLJ and he didn't like it. When Cheadle directed his Miles Davis biopic, he mentioned all the directors he took advice from and PTA was mentioned, so they definitely are still on good terms.
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Post by: ono on January 09, 2022, 12:15:59 PM
My one regret is that we'll never get to hear SLJ say, "Makes you wanna freaky deaky."
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Post by: Drill on January 09, 2022, 01:30:37 PM
This is nice. New quotes from Julianne Moore, Lesley Manville, Katherine Waterston, Martin Short, and Kevin J O'Connor about working with him.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/paul-thomas-anderson-julianne-moore-interview-b1988765.html
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Post by: wilberfan on January 14, 2022, 02:46:08 PM
Kevin Smith recants?  Haven't listened yet, but I'm surprisingly eager to hear this--which is odd, considering I essentially gave up on Kevin several films ago.

https://twitter.com/ThatKevinSmith/status/1481990466576924674
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Post by: Yes on January 14, 2022, 04:34:07 PM
This was whatever. Kevin admits he was jealous and wrong about Magnolia. Praises Hoffman and Haim.

Discusses the BCoop Peters scene and its relationship to Kevin's infamous Peters story.

Major spoilers on ending
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Post by: PaulElroy35 on January 14, 2022, 07:12:05 PM
Its cool Kevin can admit he was being a dick however christ does weed make him ramble this wasnt really a licorice pizza review haha
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Post by: Yes on January 16, 2022, 03:03:09 PM
https://twitter.com/JonathanDean_/status/1482685995208388616
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Post by: pynchonikon on January 16, 2022, 03:39:08 PM
Denzel is happening.
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Post by: wilberfan on January 18, 2022, 12:10:44 AM
I haven't listened yet, but...

The "Long Shot Leaders" Podcast Lands Unforgettable Interview With Chris Peters – Son of Jon Peters and Leslie Ann Warren (https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/the-long-shot-leaders-podcast-lands-unforgettable-interview-with-chris-peters-son-of-jon-peters-and-leslie-ann-warren)

QuoteListeners will be treated to the eye-opening expose on Chris Peters and the downfalls of being born into the dark side of Hollywood, overcoming that, and drug addiction. Being the son of a heavyweight Hollywood player has its own problems.

QuoteMichael Stein is a longtime friend of Paul Thomas Anderson ... and has a deep connection as he was the original lead in the "Dirk Diggler Story" and an appearance in "Boogie Nights".

The crazy life of Chris Peters is the subject of this latest Podcast by Michael Stein of "Longshot Leaders Podcast".

https://longshotleaders.com/podcasts/chris-peters/
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Post by: wilberfan on January 18, 2022, 03:11:14 PM
Carol Burnett shares the secrets of her long-running TV series (https://globalcirculate.com/carol-burnett-shares-the-secrets-of-her-long-running-tv-series-daily-news/) – Daily News

QuoteBurnett, who is 88, is acknowledged in the closing credits of the movie "Licorice Pizza," which is currently in theaters. Set in Encino in the 1970s, the film was written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and features a short clip of Burnett on an analog TV.

"I've known Paulie since he was a kid because his father was our announcer at one point, Ernie Anderson," she said. "So that's how I know Paul. Ernie gave him an 8-millimeter camera for his birthday or Christmas or something or other, and he started doing home movies when he was just a child."
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Post by: Yes on January 18, 2022, 03:28:03 PM
I didn't notice her in credits, everytime I've attempted to stay the theater ushers me out
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on January 18, 2022, 03:52:11 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on January 18, 2022, 12:10:44 AM
I haven't listened yet, but...

The "Long Shot Leaders" Podcast Lands Unforgettable Interview With Chris Peters – Son of Jon Peters and Leslie Ann Warren (https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/the-long-shot-leaders-podcast-lands-unforgettable-interview-with-chris-peters-son-of-jon-peters-and-leslie-ann-warren)

QuoteListeners will be treated to the eye-opening expose on Chris Peters and the downfalls of being born into the dark side of Hollywood, overcoming that, and drug addiction. Being the son of a heavyweight Hollywood player has its own problems.

QuoteMichael Stein is a longtime friend of Paul Thomas Anderson ... and has a deep connection as he was the original lead in the "Dirk Diggler Story" and an appearance in "Boogie Nights".

The crazy life of Chris Peters is the subject of this latest Podcast by Michael Stein of "Longshot Leaders Podcast".

https://longshotleaders.com/podcasts/chris-peters/

Trying to fall asleep to this last night gave me a definite sense of what it was like for Fiona that night with Quentie and Paulie... 
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Post by: Yes on January 30, 2022, 02:47:30 PM
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1487833385435217921?s=20&t=eOBU2m2on333fP18fr_cwA
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Post by: ono on January 30, 2022, 06:06:30 PM
Why does Kirsten look like an old lady? :(
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Post by: Rooty Poots on January 31, 2022, 01:31:52 AM
Quote from: ono on January 30, 2022, 06:06:30 PM
Why does Kirsten look like an old lady? :(

Heavy makeup that she's probably been wearing all day (and sweating in, getting oily, etc. All the things that normal people have to worry about every time they wear makeup) combined with the lack of good, flattering production lighting that she'd get on most shows that aren't shot on a Zoom call. She looks like what a normal (non-Hollywood) person looks like when they wear heavy makeup.
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Post by: Yes on February 05, 2022, 07:21:03 PM
https://twitter.com/neonrated/status/1490093502167859201

didnt know where to put this
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Post by: wilberfan on February 05, 2022, 07:22:07 PM
Ugh.  Watched it last night...  She wore out her welcome after an hour.    :yabbse-thumbdown:
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Post by: Yes on February 05, 2022, 07:32:41 PM
lol
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Post by: d on February 06, 2022, 02:05:28 AM
Cool to see him praising a non-Marvel one. ;) It is one of the best new movies I have seen recently. Any idea where he said so? Would love to see how he justified that statement.
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Post by: Yes on February 09, 2022, 02:33:19 PM
https://deadline.com/2022/02/mgm-future-oscars-michael-de-luca-pam-abdy-interview-1234929534/
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Post by: pynchonikon on February 09, 2022, 03:32:26 PM
Quote from: Yes on February 09, 2022, 02:33:19 PM
https://deadline.com/2022/02/mgm-future-oscars-michael-de-luca-pam-abdy-interview-1234929534/

I can't tell how much optimistic De Luca & Abdy sound, but I feel PTA's near future looks safe with them.
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Post by: Shughes on February 19, 2022, 08:31:31 PM
Not sure where to put these threads (Everything Twitter or here):

https://twitter.com/ThatRebecca/status/1492669210442362881

https://twitter.com/am_cinematheque/status/1493736130340012032

Love seeing Paul getting involved with things like this. Hoping we might get to see video of the intro's and Q&A's at some point.
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Post by: Drill on March 07, 2022, 02:29:31 PM
QuoteCampion is enjoying herself, certainly. She's giddy about competing with directors she admires, like Paul Thomas Anderson.

QuotePaul Thomas Anderson has cheered the film too. "That really gave me a thrill," Campion says with a giggle.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/03/awards-insider-jane-campion-a-candid-interview-with-a-master
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Post by: wilberfan on March 07, 2022, 09:27:11 PM
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1501027737334550530
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Post by: Yes on March 08, 2022, 01:14:09 AM
https://twitter.com/variety/status/1501066025424470016
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Post by: Yes on March 08, 2022, 01:15:45 AM
QuoteSome of the biggest applause breaks in the room included those for Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis ("King Richard"), Steven Spielberg and Ariana DeBose ("West Side Story"), Troy Kotsur ("CODA") and Paul Thomas Anderson ("Licorice Pizza").

Passage from the Variety article
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Post by: Drill on March 08, 2022, 11:44:00 AM
They all praise and want to work with him but they don't want to vote for him.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on March 08, 2022, 12:42:06 PM
 :rofl:  :bravo:
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Post by: Yes on March 11, 2022, 03:20:16 PM
https://twitter.com/ArianaDeBose/status/1502292669287915525
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Post by: Yes on March 12, 2022, 10:22:28 PM
https://twitter.com/kylebuchanan/status/1502862134178312193
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Post by: Yes on March 13, 2022, 12:17:14 AM
https://twitter.com/chrissgardner/status/1502890115533660164
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Post by: Yes on March 13, 2022, 01:01:37 AM
https://twitter.com/kylebuchanan/status/1502902278566514688
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Post by: Yes on March 14, 2022, 01:52:47 AM
https://twitter.com/PantsBoys/status/1503082851348230148
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Post by: jviness02 on March 14, 2022, 08:19:18 PM
Quote from: Yes on March 14, 2022, 01:52:47 AMhttps://twitter.com/PantsBoys/status/1503082851348230148

I know this is an "editing" choice technically, but it's really a directing choice. All of PTA's films are like that, going back to Hard Eight.
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Post by: Yes on March 15, 2022, 08:07:45 PM
https://twitter.com/filmupdates/status/1503886762866720768
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Post by: wilberfan on March 17, 2022, 09:38:46 PM
Bennie on PTA

https://twitter.com/FilmLinc/status/1504647666256519169
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on March 18, 2022, 12:18:22 AM
After listening to PTA's episode of Smartless, I listened to a few other episodes on a road trip and Charlie Day talks about going to PTA's house to watch an early cut of Licorice Pizza. For those who don't know, Day is married to Mary Elizabeth Ellis who plays Cooper's mom in the film.

PTA discussion begins around 37:50. Only real interesting tidbit is Paul apparently has a barn that he converted into a screening room.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2vniNhf6yV2buoT6uULay9?si=1lp3mD7RRQyJlIArVRN8Rg
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Post by: Yes on March 25, 2022, 02:18:42 AM
https://twitter.com/latelateshow/status/1506499732096487426
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Post by: Drill on March 25, 2022, 11:15:23 AM
https://twitter.com/AgustinAlmo/status/1507244760582410245
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Yes on March 27, 2022, 03:14:31 PM
https://www.instagram.com/p/CbnYkWCJnF7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Yes on March 30, 2022, 05:57:23 PM
Almodovar:

QuoteAfter that, I meet with Paul Thomas Anderson. We first met a long time ago, in 2002, at the Cannes Film Festival. I presented him with the Best Director award for a film that has what for me is an unpronounceable title, "Punch Drunk Love," and we celebrated intensely that night in the discotheques on the French Riviera. I also meet the two protagonists of his "Licorice Pizza," Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman, both brimming over with the same charm as in the film and I have to tell both of them so. It's been years since we've seen two presences like theirs in the cinema, so fresh, so seductive, so personal. I fell in love with them, just like the camera that shot them in the film.

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/03/pedro-almodovar-oscars-2022-zendaya-will-smith-1234712971/
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Post by: wilberfan on April 02, 2022, 07:55:15 AM
Pedro Almodóvar's funny letter that narrates his night at the Oscars (https://www.inspiredtraveler.ca/pedro-almodovars-funny-letter-that-narrates-his-night-at-the-oscars/)

QuoteAfter that episode, the director comments on his brief encounter with Paul Thomas Anderson. "We met a long time ago, in 2002, at the Cannes Film Festival. I gave him the award for Best Director for a film that has an unpronounceable title for me, "Punch Drunk Love", and that night we celebrated intensely in the clubs of the Côte d'Azur." The Spanish filmmaker exchanged words with the acclaimed PTA and recognized him for his excellent work at Licorice Pizza, where he also became a fan of his breakout stars, Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman. "It's been years since we've seen two presences like hers in the cinema, so fresh, so seductive, so personal. I fell in love with them, as did the camera that shot them on film."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on April 18, 2022, 05:44:13 PM
Bill Nighy:  "I don't like any film more than I like Punch-Drunk Love."

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Post by: itwasgood on May 06, 2022, 11:46:17 AM
John C. Reilly talking about Paul in his new Vulture interview:
https://www.vulture.com/article/john-c-reilly-in-conversation.html

QuoteThere was a stretch between about 1989 and 2002 when it seemed like every top director wanted to work with you — Brian De Palma, Tony Scott, Paul Thomas Anderson, Terrence Malick, Sam Raimi, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Rob Marshall, and Stephen Daldry. What was it like being that hot?
Well, those directors all discovered me one at a time. Brian De Palma literally did discover me, and after that, the others were like, "Oh my God, I found the perfect person for this role. I don't know where this kid came from, but he's perfect." Paul Thomas Anderson was the first one who put it all together, who was like, "I know you from this movie, and this movie, and this movie. And I know you can do more than you've been doing, so I wrote this part for you."

As an actor who's been directed by lots of filmmakers, what do the good ones do for you? What advice would you give to a mediocre director who wanted to get the best possible performance out of John C. Reilly?
I can tell you what it's like to work with Paul. He's someone who's so excited to see what you're going to do next. That sounds like an obvious thing, but having one person's complete attention while you're acting is important. You would be amazed at the number of film sets where the director is looking at the monitor or worried about what the lighting or camera is doing. Where there's no one emotionally connected with you to come up after the take and say, like Paul does, all sweating and excited, "Oh yeah, that was so cool. I saw that time you got a little more pissed off when you said that thing. Let's keep going that way. That's so great. Yes, yes, yes." Martin Scorsese is the same way: He hires great people, and he lets them surprise him. I haven't worked with many mediocre directors, but if I were to describe someone that way, it would be because they weren't paying attention.

You once told Paul Thomas Anderson you were tired of playing "heavies" and "child men" and wanted to play a character who falls in love, and so he wrote your part in Magnolia. Do you think that movie changed the way audiences saw you?
I don't know. I hope so, because that was a personal role and I really felt connected to it. Paul saw I was capable of doing more than character work, that I was someone who could carry a story. And actually, what I said to him was, "Hey, you've got to write me my Sunrise." What I meant was a movie called Sunrise from the 1920s. It's this romantic story. I can't even remember what it's about, but at that point, I had just seen it. Paul didn't realize I was referring to that movie, so he wrote the scene at the end of Magnolia in the morning when the sun is coming up. He thought I literally was like, "Write me a sunrise." He and I have actually never talked about that.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on May 06, 2022, 02:05:10 PM
I love how he always calls him "Paul Anderson".
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on May 07, 2022, 12:05:06 AM
QuoteBoogie Nights is another movie of yours that's had a long afterlife. Why do you think that one has endured?
Like all Paul's movies, there's some real stuff in there. It's not really about porn; it's about choosing your family. If your blood family doesn't love you, you can choose another family. I know people in my own life who have done that, and that's a very powerful, self-loving thing to do.

But there's something else that's interesting about Boogie Nights. When it came out in 1997, it already seemed like an old movie. It seemed nostalgic because Paul shot it on Super 35 film, so it looked like the '70s and early '80s.

QuoteThere aren't many TV shows shot on film anymore. Do you prefer it to digital?
Yeah. What 35-mm. film does to a film set is break it up into 11-minute chunks, because you can't put more than 11 minutes' worth of 35-mm. into a magazine. So no matter what happens in a take, when that film runs out, you have to stop. I've done movies that are just digital, and it's very hard to maintain the moment between "Action" and "Cut" because it doesn't end — it goes on and on. You're 20 minutes into a take and you hear people outside the set walking around because they have to go to the bathroom.

The moment between "Action" and "Cut" is sacred. Everyone has to shut the fuck up for a second and give focus to what the actors are doing. Otherwise, what have we been preparing eight months for? We spent all this time, money, energy, and planning — location scouting, building sets, all of it — to get to that moment when the director says "Action." So it needs to be this heightened moment where we try to tap into something bigger. If it just seems like 30 minutes while we're riffing, it loses some of its power.

QuoteWhile I was preparing to talk to you, I watched Boogie Nights and Stan & OllieThe 2018 movie about the final years of comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, in which Reilly plays Oliver Hardy to Steve Coogan's Stan Laurel. on the same day. They don't have too much in common, but they're both about sea changes in the entertainment industry and performers at the end of their eras. What do you, a movie star, make of the sea change we're in now, as all of the attention moves to streaming TV?
I once might have said, "I don't know if TV is ever going to be as good as a movie. With advertising and commercial breaks and the speed at which TV productions work and the way budgets go, there's just less focus on quality." But then I saw Escape at Dannemora and realized I was wrong. If you have a film director and amazing actors, why wouldn't you want a story to be seven hours long? And then when corona kept everyone out of movie theaters, that was a nail in the coffin. It was a shock to the system when the ArcLightThe legendary Hollywood multiplex that closed its doors in 2020.  went under. Everyone was looking like, Wait, what is going to happen here? I think it might be time to start calling this business something else. It's not the film business. It's not the TV business. It's computer vision or something.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on May 07, 2022, 04:55:12 PM
Who is talking?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: WorldForgot on May 07, 2022, 05:01:51 PM
Quote from: Drenk on May 07, 2022, 04:55:12 PMWho is talking?

Quote from: itwasgood on May 06, 2022, 11:46:17 AMJohn C. Reilly talking about Paul in his new Vulture interview:
https://www.vulture.com/article/john-c-reilly-in-conversation.html

John C Reilly from the interview linked one page back ~
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: kingfan011 on May 18, 2022, 10:31:27 PM
Anybody watch the Tom Cruise Cannes interview ties to Top Gun of course. You can find it on youtube.

First the thing that immediately comes across once you finish the 45 minute talk is how tightly coiled and in control Cruise is in the interview. The whole panel feels like the interview scene in Magnolia before it goes off the rails.

Second there is a weird part where the interviewer asks about Magnolia and specifically the death bed scene. Cruise deflects and basically shades Anderson by saying that Mackey was all his idea. He also never mentions Anderson by name probably because he thinks he's a SP
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Yes on May 18, 2022, 10:44:41 PM
The thing about Cruise is that he's a sociopath--a control freak celebrity. And after the Will Smith fiasco, probably the last remaining control freak maniacal movie star adamant on projecting and conveying a curated image. He's nothing more than an instrument of brand entertainment.

Magnolia was the last performance he gave that was truly raw and vulnerable (Vanilla Sky is essentially a shrine to his persona), likely rooted in personal context he therapeutically exorcised via the role which makes it difficult to discuss. And then you factor in the whole Master situation, and he probably has a.. conflicted relationship with PTA to say the least.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on May 19, 2022, 03:00:41 AM
He's playing each frog in Magnolia too.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tdog on May 19, 2022, 12:23:28 PM
Quote from: kingfan011 on May 18, 2022, 10:31:27 PMAnybody watch the Tom Cruise Cannes interview ties to Top Gun of course. You can find it on youtube.

First the thing that immediately comes across once you finish the 45 minute talk is how tightly coiled and in control Cruise is in the interview. The whole panel feels like the interview scene in Magnolia before it goes off the rails.

Second there is a weird part where the interviewer asks about Magnolia and specifically the death bed scene. Cruise deflects and basically shades Anderson by saying that Mackey was all his idea. He also never mentions Anderson by name probably because he thinks he's a SP

I just watched the Magnolia bit, it's at 21:00 mins in if anybody else is interested.

It's certainly a weird moment. He NEVER mentions Paul's name and then in the next segment he's all Stanley this, Stanley that with a big smile.

One thing to mention though is that the look of TJ Mackey was all Cruise's idea and I think that's what he was referring to (and yes he massively deflected). Originally Mackey was supposed to be a preppy, almost nerd like guy with glasses intended to be a visual resemblance of who he's based on.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Yes on May 19, 2022, 01:26:37 PM
Yeah, he bizarrely only refers to PTA as "he" or "him" in the weird 2 min or so tangent lol
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tdog on May 19, 2022, 02:00:27 PM
Since we are talking Tom Cruise interviews, did you guys know that Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman performance was inspired by watching a Tom Cruise interview on Lettermen? Bale said that "he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Alethia on May 23, 2022, 02:58:49 PM
Funnily enough, there's a scene in the American Psycho novel where Bateman runs into Cruise in the elevator of their shared apartment bldg.

I love Tom Cruise. Cannot wait for Top Gun: Maverick. I fully expect it to give me (us) that cherry pie, sweet momma baby...
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on June 06, 2022, 02:17:25 PM
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wUqk7xgpfukRd6aVhqxvR?si=LbedjymBSJeqigzTYE5t3Q&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A07SjDmKb9iliEzpNcN2xGD

Around the 1 hour and 18 minute mark, Adam Sandler talks to Bill Simmons about PTA.
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Post by: wilberfan on June 11, 2022, 07:56:21 AM
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on June 12, 2022, 11:02:21 PM
Quote from: wilberfan on June 11, 2022, 07:56:21 AM


Great story. Love the Sandman! Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: wilberfan on June 23, 2022, 11:36:05 PM
Jacqueline Lentzou is the new romantic of Greek Weird cinema (https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/56399/1/jacqueline-lentzou-romantic-of-greek-weird-cinema-moon-66-questions-interview)

QuoteBy the time Lentzou took the screenplay to Paul Thomas Anderson, who's credited as a script consultant, she was several drafts beyond the dog plot. The pair met at the Sundance Mediterranean Film Lab in Costa Navarino in 2019 and spent two days discussing the film. "PTA took me to his room, with his kids and his wife, and we had breakfast, and it was a very heartwarming situation. After he read the script, he told me, 'You don't need any advice. You know what you're doing.' I told him, 'I know what I know.' He gave me a boost in confidence."

In a blog post for MUBI Notebook, Lentzou listed The Death of Leopold, a 1910 painting by Léon Spilliaert, as one of the film's major inspirations. Through the magic of Zoom's virtual background function, I pull up the painting and an almost identical image from Magnolia when Philip Seymour Hoffman visits Philip Baker Hall at the hospital. "Now that you mention it – back then, I didn't know why I loved this painting, but I loved Magnolia. And you know something? PTA told me that this film, for me, is like his Magnolia, because it's such a personal story."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on July 22, 2022, 01:31:04 AM
From Episode One of THE LAST MOVIE STARS, a multi-part documentary by Ethan Hawke about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. (HBO Max)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: DickHardwood2022 on July 22, 2022, 03:18:45 PM
https://deadline.com/2022/07/licorice-pizza-cooper-hoffman-the-trashers-stranger-things-david-harbour-cooper-raiff-the-trashers-1235075200/

Not really PTA related directly but though this was cool news.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on July 22, 2022, 03:48:03 PM
Came here to post the same news.   Nice that Lil' Coop has another acting gig.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Robyn on July 22, 2022, 09:22:37 PM
Haven't seen his new film, but Shithouse was pretty great.

Looking forward to it.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: DickHardwood2022 on July 24, 2022, 12:55:37 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ece_jINsGi0&t=1245s

Cool video about an actor on The Master set.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on July 25, 2022, 11:13:24 AM
As someone who worked at CENTRAL CASTING for 16+ years, it's kind of adorable watching a youngster describe to his fellow kids that there's such a thing as being a movie extra. 

That said, it was fun hearing about the MASTER set from a civilian that got to hang out there.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on July 25, 2022, 01:54:21 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIJ_pWIQuOM
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on July 25, 2022, 02:58:25 PM
Damn.  I wanted to talk to Adam back in the day (would still love to).  Anyone know where I could get the entire episode? 
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: WorldForgot on July 27, 2022, 12:11:00 PM
https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1552149970140426240
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on August 10, 2022, 11:40:18 AM
An Interview with Pat Healy, Part 2: Walking Among the Giants (https://thereveal.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-pat-healy-part-487)

QuoteI'd like to go all the way back to Magnolia, where you play the pharmacist Julianne Moore explodes at in what may be the most famous scenes of her career. Do you remember what that experience was like? To see her go to the places that she goes to in that moment?

The funny thing about that early success was that I was certainly really grateful to be there. Boogie Nights was a movie that I think I saw three times when it came out, maybe four times, so I was really excited to be in that movie and be there with her. But at that point I was cocky. I just figured, "Yeah, I'm here. I'm one of the stars of this." A lot of actors talk about this—about being an egomaniac with low self-esteem. I felt that way, but I'm sure I felt completely insecure, too. And the day of shooting that scene, it was really remarkable the enormity of what she came and did, and I think she did that in maybe three takes. I remember she showed up for the rehearsal probably before makeup and hair, and she just looked like a movie star. I worked with Jessica Chastain recently, and they show up you're just like, "Oh right, they look like that in real life." Like they have a diffusion filter on them the whole time.

And so that was pretty remarkable, and she was incredibly nice. And Paul [Thomas Anderson], he's a year older than me, so that seemed like we were contemporaries, even though I acted in a scene in Magnolia when I was 27 years old, and Paul made Magnolia when he was 28 years old. [Laughs.] She did that, and I was knocked out by it, so it wasn't hard to react to, I was just being there. And in fact, the camera is not really even on me that much, so it's pretty remarkable and flattering to me that, for some people, it's still the biggest thing I've done. That will probably change now with Saul, but it's still the thing people bring up to me the most.

Last year, John Oliver did [a segment on] the economy or something. I wish I could remember what it was, maybe you can find it. [I did (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzFG0Cdh8D8&t=679s)! — ed.] And he says, "That kind of abuse is safe for pharmacists." And it shows a picture of me from Magnolia, and he does the whole thing and everyone understands it. And this is 20-some years later. That's remarkable.

Good interview--check it out.

Speaking of Healy:  I went to see MAGNOLIA at the New Bev one Tues afternoon and just before the film started, a staff member went up to introduce the film--and Pat Healy, whom he had spotted at the back of the theater.  Pat had showed up just as a fan to see the film again.  He was invited up to speak to us briefly.  I wish I could remember more of his comments.  Probably a variation of the above.  Seeing him that day made me just a little bit more of a fan of his.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on September 09, 2022, 11:07:29 AM
Robert Elswit, ASC — The Traditionalist (https://ascmag.com/articles/robert-elswit-asc)

(https://cms-assets.theasc.com/Elswit-There-Will-Be-Blood.jpg?mtime=20220831073450)

QuoteZaillian, he adds, knows precisely what he wants the shots to be. The director doesn't want to edit a three-page scene by choosing from a dozen or more setups. Elswit notes that some of his other frequent collaborators, including Paul Thomas Anderson and brothers Dan and Tony Gilroy, employ a similar approach. "They're not making coverage; they're making shots," he says. "It's the most difficult but also the most gratifying way to photograph a movie."

"It's an old-fashioned way of thinking, but I'm an old-fashioned guy. I'm always thinking about movies made before zoom lenses and reflex cameras, when they had very slow film, didn't move the camera much and somehow made some of the greatest movies of all time."

QuoteThe fact that he still does his own operating is another aspect of Elswit's process that could be considered old-school. "A few of us still do it, even though we're getting up there in age," he says. "It's a matter of taste. Steve Zaillian is sensitive to what the operator does, and what he wants is very specific. Sometimes it's just more efficient for me to operate."

His preferred operating method has proved well-suited to the Covid19 era: He uses remote camera heads with vibration-isolator mounts on a dolly. "There's no crew in the space with the actors unless it's a [moving] dolly shot," Elswit notes. "I can be at a monitor, next to the director, and I'll be on the camera if I have to be. It's a wonderful way to work."

QuoteElswit doesn't like to spend too much time in the final grade, but sometimes it's difficult to avoid. "I've spent three weeks grading some digital movies because the visual effects were coming in slowly and I kept having to go back," he says. "On There Will Be Blood, we timed the dailies, the negative was conformed, and a print was made, and then we made two more rounds of corrections — so we sat through the movie just three times.

QuoteWhen he shoots digital, he sets a LUT at the beginning of a show and then strives to capture the final image as much as possible on the day. He recognizes that this is not how everyone works. "The digital process allows you to do so much, and you can chase it all the way down the rabbit hole," says Elswit. "Paul Thomas Anderson doesn't like digital not only for the look, but also because he wants to know what his movie is going to look like on set. He doesn't want to be told, 'Here you go. We can go in a room a year from now and create the look of the movie.' You can do that with digital; you don't have to commit to anything."

Regardless of format, getting the look he and the director want requires not only careful planning, but also an openness to changing course, as was the case on There Will Be Blood, which tracks the rise of oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) at the turn of the century. "We were trying to make southwest Texas look striking and startling and unique, and it did," says Elswit. "We looked and looked and found this incredibly expressive landscape, and then it was about finding the right time of day for the sun and sky and weather. If we didn't like the way something looked one day, we could say, 'Well, why don't we do this scene instead?' Or, 'Why don't we move over there?'"

One vanishing practice that Elswit laments is the ritual of cast and crew gathering in the evenings to screen dailies. Today, people commonly evaluate digital rushes by themselves using iPads. "We used to screen dailies together every day, and that made us all think tactically and creatively about what we were going to do the next day," he recalls. "We discovered the movie as we made it."

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on December 07, 2022, 04:36:36 PM

The entire thing looks worth watching--but I've cued it up at a PTA discussion.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Tdog on December 10, 2022, 09:59:03 AM
Quote from: WorldForgot on July 27, 2022, 12:11:00 PMhttps://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1552149970140426240

It would break my brain if Kojima put PTA in Death Stranding 2!
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: WorldForgot on December 10, 2022, 11:01:07 AM
That would be so cool. He'd be able to interact with other actors as a character himself. I think he'd fit in well as an Otacon type character, gear maker or geek.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: kingfan011 on January 04, 2023, 02:14:52 PM
On the Los Angeles actors roundtable Austin butler raves about PTA. He clearly has a lot of respect in the industry.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on January 04, 2023, 05:33:45 PM
Quote from: kingfan011 on January 04, 2023, 02:14:52 PMOn the Los Angeles actors roundtable Austin butler raves about PTA. He clearly has a lot of respect in the industry.

It's funny to remember when PTA didn't have nearly as much respect. He wasn't really talked about much at all; we found it notable to post anytime he was mentioned. TWBB was the turning point.
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Post by: wilberfan on January 04, 2023, 07:38:15 PM
Is this the link?

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: kingfan011 on January 05, 2023, 09:51:02 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on January 04, 2023, 07:38:15 PMIs this the link?


yes towards the end
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: HACKANUT on January 05, 2023, 04:28:26 PM
Quote from: WorldForgot on December 10, 2022, 11:01:07 AMThat would be so cool. He'd be able to interact with other actors as a character himself. I think he'd fit in well as an Otacon type character, gear maker or geek.

PTA Otacon just hyped me up so hard. Please please please!
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on January 05, 2023, 06:13:00 PM
Quote from: kingfan011 on January 05, 2023, 09:51:02 AM
Quote from: wilberfan on January 04, 2023, 07:38:15 PMIs this the link?

yes towards the end

38:55 I believe.

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Post by: wilberfan on January 05, 2023, 10:24:48 PM
The writers weigh-in as well.  :yabbse-cool:

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: max from fearless on January 09, 2023, 12:06:30 PM
Adam Sandler: Y'know what was something cool? One time I was with PTA and Scorsese. We were somewhere together, it was just like a quick moment. Scorsese says to PTA: "How about the next one, we put away the Stedicam? Just put away the Stedicam." And Paul's like: "Hmmm. I don't know about that. I don't know about that." It was like some little -

Austin Butler: Like a little challenge.

Adam Sandler: Like lets try something different. Let's put away the Stedicam.

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on February 08, 2023, 03:11:55 PM
Michelle Williams' 'Fabelmans'-esque origin story? It starts with PTA and Björk (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-02-08/michelle-williams-became-blubbering-mess-when-fabelmans-wrapped)

"If someone were to write a "Fabelmans"-esque origin story of her artistic awakening, it would start, Williams says, with her watching the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, particularly "Magnolia," a movie about loneliness and loss, familial dysfunction and apocalyptic visions.

"That just scorched me from the inside out," Williams says of the 1999 film. "But all his movies scorch me with their observations and performances and humanity. As a young woman, I was really struck by his flawed and difficult characters. I thought, 'If I can love them, can I allow myself the same love for my own flaws and difficulties?' I found those characters so beautiful. They challenged my sense of myself. They gave me a window into the possibilities of cinema and who I could be as a person."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: DickHardwood2022 on February 08, 2023, 04:05:49 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmiMhPr_OKo

KATIE BOLAND On Working With PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON In THE MASTER!
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: PinkTeeth on February 09, 2023, 03:48:50 PM

Zuh?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Reel on February 10, 2023, 12:45:20 AM
 :brickwall:
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: RudyBlatnoyd on February 10, 2023, 07:02:53 AM
The clip from that show is inadvertently an excellent example of how terrible so much screenwriting is nowadays. Just incredibly schematic and reductive and dull and incurious. Quite apart from the fact that it's hard to believe that a young person who knows who Spike Lee is wouldn't also know who PT Anderson is (it's not like either is exactly a Generation Z touchstone – Jordan Peele would make more sense!), if they were going to do that conversation wouldn't it have been more interesting to have the black character say something like 'Hou Hsiao-hsien is the greatest living filmmaker' or whatever?

I'm not sure why I find it so annoying. I just take against the absolute, entry-level bobbins that gets passed off as social commentary in TV shows and movies.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: DickHardwood2022 on February 10, 2023, 07:09:21 AM
Quote from: RudyBlatnoyd on February 10, 2023, 07:02:53 AMThe clip from that show is inadvertently an excellent example of how terrible so much screenwriting is nowadays. Just incredibly schematic and reductive and dull and incurious. Quite apart from the fact that it's hard to believe that a young person who knows who Spike Lee is wouldn't also know who PT Anderson is (it's not like either is exactly a Generation Z touchstone – Jordan Peele would make more sense!), if they were going to do that conversation wouldn't it have been more interesting to have the black character say something like 'Hou Hsiao-hsien is the greatest living filmmaker' or whatever?

I'm not sure why I find it so annoying. I just take against the absolute, entry-level bobbins that gets passed off as social commentary in TV shows and movies.

yeah i think youre getting more annoyed then you should. I just saw a clip where PTA got mentioned which is always a bonus haha
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: RudyBlatnoyd on February 10, 2023, 07:15:42 AM
I think I just hate TV shows now.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drenk on February 10, 2023, 01:57:27 PM
There's even worse.

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Post by: Pringle on February 13, 2023, 12:58:06 PM
Spike Lee is WAY more recognizable than Paul Thomas Anderson, especially to the young basketball fans that are the main target of this trailer. He's been in a bunch of commercials, made higher-grossing films, and is shown courtside at Knicks and Lakers games all the time.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: RudyBlatnoyd on February 14, 2023, 02:59:40 AM
Quote from: Pringle on February 13, 2023, 12:58:06 PMSpike Lee is WAY more recognizable than Paul Thomas Anderson, especially to the young basketball fans that are the main target of this trailer. He's been in a bunch of commercials, made higher-grossing films, and is shown courtside at Knicks and Lakers games all the time.

Point taken. Do they not just mainly know him as an old guy who pops up at games, though? Are there really lots of young basketball fans out there watching Malcolm X and He Got Game and going around thinking or saying things like 'he's our greatest living filmmaker'? It's a nice thought! I dunno, it just struck me as an entirely phoney-sounding conversation that I could never actually imagine two human beings having – a common complaint in my experience of TV and film screenwriting these days, I'm afraid.
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Post by: jviness02 on February 17, 2023, 11:59:28 PM
Yeah, Spike Lee is still incredibly relevant. All the kids who work for me(15-18 year olds) talk about him just as much as Tarantino and Nolan. 

Also worth mentioning it's a basketball show and Lee is a huge figure in basketball. As said earlier, he's still courtside, but he also has "directed" the story mode of the NBA 2K video game series multiple times. It's branded as "A Spike Lee Joint" like his films.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: RudyBlatnoyd on February 18, 2023, 05:38:16 AM
Obviously I'm just massively out of touch on this, apologies. No disrespect meant to Spike Lee, anyway – saw Bamboozled a while back and loved it.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: WorldForgot on February 18, 2023, 09:57:46 AM
Quote from: RudyBlatnoyd on February 18, 2023, 05:38:16 AMsaw Bamboozled a while back and loved it.


Massively punk flick, love that one.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on February 18, 2023, 11:31:41 AM
Quote from: RudyBlatnoyd on February 18, 2023, 05:38:16 AMObviously I'm just massively out of touch on this, apologies. No disrespect meant to Spike Lee, anyway – saw Bamboozled a while back and loved it.

No need to apologize. You should hear me try and talk about music. I'm so out of touch lol
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: max from fearless on February 20, 2023, 10:54:24 AM
Audrey Diwan (Happening) hopes Paul Thomas Anderson saw her work (https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1627119820834500609?s=20)
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: RudyBlatnoyd on February 20, 2023, 05:19:28 PM
It is quite remarkable how many directors from around the world are name-checking PTA now. He must be getting up there with Scorsese and Claire Denis in the ranks of 'directors most often cited by contemporary art-house filmmakers'.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on February 24, 2023, 12:20:10 PM
Judd Apatow introduces Paul Thomas Anderson at the DGAs: "He has never won a DGA Award, which kinda makes me think this whole night is bullshit."
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: jviness02 on March 16, 2023, 10:56:27 AM
Ben Affleck mentions showing his new film  AIR to PTA and calls him his favorite director. It's at the very end.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/ben-affleck-air-production-company-grammys-memes-justice-league-1235353301/
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on April 16, 2023, 05:12:15 PM
Have we seen this before?

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on April 23, 2023, 11:41:29 AM
https://twitter.com/zzzzaaaacccchhh/status/1648771339115802625
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Heisenberg on April 23, 2023, 02:57:50 PM
PTA got a special thanks credit in Beau is Afraid, which makes sense as there are some moments in the film that seemed to be inspired by The Master and Inherent Vice.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: Drill on May 24, 2023, 01:21:52 PM
QuoteRobbie has a long list of directors she'd like to work with, as an actor and a producer. She's working her way through the list. "Greta was on that list for a long time," she says. "Damien was on that list for a long time," she says, referring to Babylon's Damien Chazelle. Robbie recently ticked another box on the list, Wes Anderson. She has a small role in Asteroid City. "PTA is the big one I haven't ticked," she says, referring to Paul Thomas Anderson. "Is he aware?" I ask. "He's aware," she says.

https://www.vogue.com/article/margot-robbie-barbie-summer-cover-2023-interview
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on June 19, 2023, 03:16:26 PM
Some serious shout-outs in I LIKE MOVIES (2022)

Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: RudyBlatnoyd on June 19, 2023, 03:20:21 PM
Yeesh. That's giving me traumatic flashbacks to that White Men Can't Jump clip.

Why can't most people write dialogue these days?
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: WorldForgot on June 20, 2023, 02:57:43 PM
Quote from: RudyBlatnoyd on June 19, 2023, 03:20:21 PMYeesh. That's giving me traumatic flashbacks to that White Men Can't Jump clip.

Why can't most people write dialogue these days?

Since when can 'most people' write dialogue? If that were the case soap operas wouldn't be how they are lol
And like, Aaron Sorkin wouldn't just be giving his characters all the same voice.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: RudyBlatnoyd on June 20, 2023, 04:29:19 PM
It was just a throwaway remark about the unconvincing, tin-eared, contrived dialogue in a lot of modern movies (including, apparently, that one).
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: WorldForgot on June 20, 2023, 04:41:36 PM
Quote from: RudyBlatnoyd on June 20, 2023, 04:29:19 PMIt was just a throwaway remark about the unconvincing, tin-eared, contrived dialogue in a lot of modern movies (including, apparently, that one).

I know i know i'm mostly kidding.

But i mean, really tho, if you think about how blown away people were for Woody Allen or Sorkin's dialogue it's like, damn we're starved.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: HACKANUT on June 21, 2023, 08:19:49 PM
It's funny also that usually the most praised dialogue is the most natural or   unwritten-sounding. Obviously not in all cases as written-sounding dialogue can be very good — but still,  How insane that the task of writing is to ultimately appear to have never done anything at all, hah! Writing is just really fucking hard once you get past structure and get into the "nature" of it all.
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on September 29, 2023, 11:15:30 PM
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/ben-affleck-favourite-director-of-all-time/
Title: Re: Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA
Post by: wilberfan on December 14, 2023, 05:33:27 PM
Farout Magazine goes to the well again...

The director Austin Butler calls "my absolute hero" (https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/director-austin-butler-calls-my-absolute-hero/)