Even back in the 90s and early 00s when he was known to be very fond of his cocaine, he still came across as chilled out in interviews. You're right though. If you listen to the very entertaining conversation between him and Marc Maron on Maron's podcast (you'll find here if you search for it) Anderson is a chilled out, smart, but very funny and engaging guy. I'm not sure how he does it either. I won't name names, but there are modern film makers who can't boast half his talent and they always come across as slightly pompous in interviews, as if it would kill them not to be seen as an 'artist' 24/7.

They NEED to be watched twice but I WANT to watch them infinitely!

6 7, 280 pounds

I think Inherent Vice is his most rewatchable, great hangout movie.

who are you hanging out with? 😂

Boogie nights was over my head first time in a way. Now it's one of my faves, after like ten more viewings.

He was completely engaged throughout and made it about the work and PTA the whole time, great interviewer.

F x Feeney is the interviewer he died last year.. he's also in the movie doc Z Channel

I was thinking the same thing

He has also always just been a big fan of Pynchon

this is the exact kind of pynchon paranoia and suspicion and hyper attention to detail and coincidence that i love

@@paytonking4673 its like some on going game of 3 dimensional chest. Its like he's kubrick incarnate

You'll notice in The Master, as Dodd gives the speech at the wedding he says, 'we fought against the day and we won'. There's another Pynchon reference.

What?

Trinidad a boom operator for a 2 man interview.

with headphones it hurts my head

Probably just bad cables

Paul is so soft spoken, it seems like it’s always a struggle for sound crews....

The sound mixer was abducted by aliens just before the interview started - very unfortunate but at least he got to go into space without training for three years. He now lives on Alpha Centauri where no one can hear him scream about the bad sound mixing during this interview! Despite the bad sound - the interviewer should have been told to move the microphone AWAY from his face more, it’s not an ice cream cone! Great interview though, he is a great filmmaker, may he make many more great movies...

you might say he's.... *the* master

Good luck and good journey man. Just never forget to do the art for the sake of art and you'll be fine. Hope you make it through.

it kinda sounds like youre only in it to be famous, you think anyone you look up to wouldve been in a youtube comment section saying "i will become famous you will know my name" just stfu and do something

Saw you posted this a year ago and cool to see you're still working hard putting out short films. Best of luck to you

Good luck brother, I’ll be looking out for your name.

You have a point and agreed on that he is a true artist and genius. I do contend with the idea of auteur though. Every film is a collaborative effort with often hundreds or at least dozens of people giving creative input. Even if he didn't have a DP on Phantom Thread, he still had a gaffer and sparks under him helping and advising with lighting. No doubt he understands lighting and cinematography incredibly well though.

@@NicolasWaldvogel With respect, it's a little naive to tell someone who is obviously a film fan something as obvious as 'it takes a lot of people to make a film'. A less kind man than myself might see that as condescending.

@@davidlean1060 I was merely making a point, that even a lot of filmmakers (such as myself) put the 'auteur' way too high on a pedestal. I wasn't trying to school you my friend, but to offer a differing viewpoint. I said I agreed with you on a lot of things.

Isn't Auteur theory more to do with how a director could take someone else's ok script and still put their stamp in it and elevate it. Like if Orson Welles directs a B Movie script he turns it into Touch of Evil. That's Auteur theory I think. Not so much the director does everything himself

@@brilliantshane Not how I'd see it, no. To me it means the director is in control of a complete vision and that vision is uniquely artistic.

Same!!!

get em 🙏

I feel fear, but I am walking though it anyway.@@enricopo5325

Yeah made for a great interview

I know haha. How does one fuck up sound that bad???

Audio was done with a digimon pocket pet.

You are. 🙃

I am watching more of the video on my laptop. The speakers are 100%. I can barely hear them speak over the AC in the room

I've tried inherent vice a couple times. Still haven't enjoyed it, nor made it through more than 20 minutes. But the master, there will be blood, and phantom thread I can watch over and over.

But that's an honest question and I felt the same way.I love Magnolia,Boogie Nights,Punch Drunk Love,even Phantom thread at the very first time. I think I had to give "The Master" and "TWBB" a second watch.I have "Inherent Vice" but I haven't watched if in a while.

Nah, he's fine

ikr he’s so exhausting

Akash Akks this is from the top of my head, as a pure film fan and a starting out filmmaker myself - PTA is PTA because one can never ever truly figure out his creative genius completely nor his films and for me that’s when the art is at its best when you deep down know you felt something so truthful and honest that it’s unbelievable yet you can’t ever reduce it to just words without reducing the original effect you had while witnessing the masterpieces. PTA is PTA cuz there’s this unpredictable, bizarringly honest yet completely coherent narrative structure that’s rare for films to achieve. The alchemy caused by disparate elements (first achieved during the writing process) is what makes him uniquely him. It’s not literally possible to define it. I can only suggest to watch most of his films and let that experience form your opinion on what it is because there are people who can sit through There Will be Blood or The Master (my favourite film ever) and still won’t feel a thing or barely feel just the superficial craziness of it without getting anything so that’s that. Art is subjective and what I spoke about in the original comment is how I feel about PTA’s art and his uniquely incredible contribution to the cinematic arts and screenwriting !

Akash Akks I feel so great that you were able to find The Master at a relatively young age and still feel how unexplainably great it is.. mesmerising is truly a right word for The Master.. and without getting into comparisons I’d say Joaquin Phoenix (The actor who also played Joker in the most recent film) deserved an oscar far more for The Master than anything else he’s ever done. The performance he gave in The Master was once in a lifetime performance and just can’t be replicated. And also thanks for asking about my own filmmaking, well I did make a 27 minute short film but it was technically really bad because it was made after I dropped out of my engineering right at the first day of my college and I didn’t know what to do and suddenly I started journaling how I was feeling and at the end of it all I don’t know why I had this idea to make it into a film so that these people (family and close friends) would understand it more why I did what I did, since film is the most impactful medium of expression.. so I did make that film without knowing a thing about filmmaking and since then I’ve been learning more and more about how to really do it, I tried to make my first feature but couldn’t really do it because of various production limitations and in the meanwhile I’ve written and directed a few ads and written a few short films too but haven’t been able to unfortunately make them due to one reason or another but I really hope to. I’m sorry for the long explanation but to set the perspective right I had to mention all that. How did you stumble upon this writing masterclass? Are you also into filmmaking in some way or the other?

Akash Akks wishing my best for your short !!

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