Tomorrow (Feb 7) IFC's going to be playing the PTA interview at 9:30 a.m.
I taped it. It's great. He's so fucking wired during the interview. Plus he says that someday he'll quit smoking....yeah, right! lol
does anybody own this who would care to make a copy and mail it to me? some of us poor blokes cant afford ifc. id be willing to shell 10 bucks for it, plus you get to be my best friend forever. any takers?
Quote from: Lesterdoes anybody own this who would care to make a copy and mail it to me? some of us poor blokes cant afford ifc. id be willing to shell 10 bucks for it, plus you get to be my best friend forever. any takers?
Why not just upload it?
man im sittin here in the stone age, windows 95 with no speakers either and shit. anyway im cool now, the bidding is closed.
Um.... can I buy a copy as well? A few bucks richer, another best friend...
thanx
it's funny when he can't hold out any longer right at the end of the show, and lights a cigarette....funny as hell, classic story about his experience with NYU film school too.
Quote from: moonshinerit's funny when he can't hold out any longer right at the end of the show, and lights a cigarette....funny as hell, classic story about his experience with NYU film school too.
You know, a film critic for the Boston Phoenix told me that he's not 100% sure about that NYU story because he interviewed PTA after Boogie Nights, I think it was, and he told me that Paul told him that exact same college story, but instead of NYU he said Emerson College (in boston). Then he read pta's college story in another article and this time it was nyu. strange.
Quote from: EL__SCORCHOQuote from: moonshinerit's funny when he can't hold out any longer right at the end of the show, and lights a cigarette....funny as hell, classic story about his experience with NYU film school too.
You know, a film critic for the Boston Phoenix told me that he's not 100% sure about that NYU story because he interviewed PTA after Boogie Nights, I think it was, and he told me that Paul told him that exact same college story, but instead of NYU he said Emerson College (in boston). Then he read pta's college story in another article and this time it was nyu. strange.
Yeah, i have a tough time buying that story too. NYU is and was a pretty tough school to get into, and if the shit Ive read about PTA being a poor student, getting in fights and getting kicked out of school is true, i have a problem believing he got into NYU in the first place.
Quote from: Duck SauceQuote from: EL__SCORCHOQuote from: moonshinerit's funny when he can't hold out any longer right at the end of the show, and lights a cigarette....funny as hell, classic story about his experience with NYU film school too.
You know, a film critic for the Boston Phoenix told me that he's not 100% sure about that NYU story because he interviewed PTA after Boogie Nights, I think it was, and he told me that Paul told him that exact same college story, but instead of NYU he said Emerson College (in boston). Then he read pta's college story in another article and this time it was nyu. strange.
Yeah, i have a tough time buying that story too. NYU is and was a pretty tough school to get into, and if the shit Ive read about PTA being a poor student, getting in fights and getting kicked out of school is true, i have a problem believing he got into NYU in the first place.
if an admission personel catches the aroma of money, bad grades can be OVERLOOKED, if you get my drift. how do you think George W BUSH got into yale or harvard or wherever the hell he went..
Quote from: cowboykurtisQuote from: Duck SauceQuote from: EL__SCORCHOQuote from: moonshinerit's funny when he can't hold out any longer right at the end of the show, and lights a cigarette....funny as hell, classic story about his experience with NYU film school too.
You know, a film critic for the Boston Phoenix told me that he's not 100% sure about that NYU story because he interviewed PTA after Boogie Nights, I think it was, and he told me that Paul told him that exact same college story, but instead of NYU he said Emerson College (in boston). Then he read pta's college story in another article and this time it was nyu. strange.
Yeah, i have a tough time buying that story too. NYU is and was a pretty tough school to get into, and if the shit Ive read about PTA being a poor student, getting in fights and getting kicked out of school is true, i have a problem believing he got into NYU in the first place.
if an admission personel catches the aroma of money, bad grades can be OVERLOOKED, if you get my drift. how do you think George W BUSH got into yale or harvard or wherever the hell he went..
there are a lot of rich kids that don't get into nyu. Not everyone can buy their way in.
and how do you know this? are you a rich kid that couldnt buy his way in? maybe the kids that couldnt get in wern't rich enough -- enough money can buy you anything.
also, well documented that his dad was in show business, that coupled with having a little bit of money....AND who's to say that Paul really did so poorly in school, maybe THAT's something he just says....
all that aside, what is true in most of our minds is that he is a great fuckin' story teller, and that's a great story, true or not...very funny and at least a truthful anecdote on how he feels about film school.
Quote from: moonshineralso, well documented that his dad was in show business, that coupled with having a little bit of money....AND who's to say that Paul really did so poorly in school, maybe THAT's something he just says....
all that aside, what is true in most of our minds is that he is a great fuckin' story teller, and that's a great story, true or not...very funny and at least a truthful anecdote on how he feels about film school.
agreed
Quote from: cowboykurtisand how do you know this? are you a rich kid that couldnt buy his way in? maybe the kids that couldnt get in wern't rich enough -- enough money can buy you anything.
i didnt have to buy shit, I earned my way in. And a good friend of mine works in the admissions office and this year over 30 thousand kids applied for fall 2003. They can't go by bribe money alone, they've got plenty of kids to choose from. Though Brett Ratner got in through begging I heard, so i guess that says something.
maybe the frank tj mackey interview scene in magnolia is pta's way of "confessing"
Quote from: EL__SCORCHOQuote from: cowboykurtisand how do you know this? are you a rich kid that couldnt buy his way in? maybe the kids that couldnt get in wern't rich enough -- enough money can buy you anything.
i didnt have to buy shit, I earned my way in. And a good friend of mine works in the admissions office and this year over 30 thousand kids applied for fall 2003. They can't go by bribe money alone, they've got plenty of kids to choose from. Though Brett Ratner got in through begging I heard, so i guess that says something.
they cant go by bribes alone. but i think if you have enough money you can buy anything...is was playing devil's advocate -- didn't mean to sound like an asshole. what year are you? one of my friends is in NYU's film program.
Do you like it there? I'm sending in my intention to attend tommorrow.
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they cant go by bribes alone. but i think if you have enough money you can buy anything...is was playing devil's advocate -- didn't mean to sound like an asshole. what year are you? one of my friends is in NYU's film program.
I'm actually not sure what year I'm in. I was a bad student in high school, so I did a year and a half and a few summers at a shitty school and did good there so I could transfer to nyu I just got in this past semester in january. They still havent put all my previous credits on my record yet. I should be a junior at the end of this term.
To answer Bon Bon's question, I like it here, but I think a lot of people have an attitude problem, maybe it's a NY thing. The school's cool though, there's a lot of student films going on. By working on those you can meet a lot of people who will eventually help you make yours.
Actually, I think the NYU story is true. I remember reading a Q & A that PTA and Adam Sandler did for PDL at NYU, and the moderator mentioned at the beginning that he'd been a student. I know what she said got a laugh... something like, "A student of ours for two days." Don't remember exactly, but I'm sure she mentioned that he went there.
Quote from: BrainSushiActually, I think the NYU story is true. I remember reading a Q & A that PTA and Adam Sandler did for PDL at NYU, and the moderator mentioned at the beginning that he'd been a student. I know what she said got a laugh... something like, "A student of ours for two days." Don't remember exactly, but I'm sure she mentioned that he went there.
I was there, he told the same story he always tells in interviews and he got a big laugh when the moderator gave him an nyu and he said "it's taken me a long time to wear this fucking hat".