SECRET MAGNOLIA COMMENTARY

[private witt]

If you watch all the interviews Paul has done on Charlie Rose, you'll notice his verbal enthusiasm diminish with each film.  He's growing older, maturing.  He's saying more with each film, and in doing so he probably feels there is far less that needs to be explained. 

I also heard him say he was tired of magazine reporters preparing for an interview by only watching the commentaries and not watching the films, and then taking the jokes he would make on the tracks literally, causing Paul to spend the entire interview trying to explain his sense of humor.  I don't blame him.