Lol it is an interesting thing for a filmmaker to bring up, maybe it's one of many reasons why he's a superior director, since he sees the artistic merit in putting something like that in a movie whereas some might just dismiss that notion as lowbrow.
He had a point lol I no joke thought the EXACT same thing when I rewatched it a few months ago. I thought how did a retard have sex and why did this woman allow it?
bobcharlotte Why? He makes better and more cerebral films now. (The Master excluded). His hubris is detectable throughout Boogie Nights. Not so much as QT's, but definitely noticeable. I feel like his humanity has helped him grow as a filmmaker.
+bobcharlotte I totally agree. After Magnolia and Boogie nights, he appeared arrogant (in a somewhat likeable way) as if he knew he was the bollocks - which he is. Now in interviews, like you say, he's humble and doesn't visually express his knowledge of knowing he's probably the best working filmmaker
How can anyone not love this guy? His knowledge and joy of cinema is contagious, in large part thanks to his ease at expressing complex ideas in few and clear words, as well as his utter lack of pretentiousness. Then you hear interviews for The Phantom Thread, and it's immediately apparent that success and fame never went to his head.
Hands down the best PTA interview ever. He’s less playful and more reserved in recent interviews which are great but the pure passion for film (and porn) in this is an absolute joy.
Every so often I come back to this interview, just so I can soak up whatever potent energy this has, and work it into my own thing I've got going. This interview changed my life in so many ways, and that's not an exaggeration.
I love this interview. I've been watching it for like... 7 years and still am enamored by it. I also think the interviewer needs a ton of credit. He asks some great questions and you can tell he really engages Paul who, at the time, was super high energy.
I imagine myself in college talking to a guy like this in a dorm..make me miss those days (I'm about his age) in college when we'd sit around eating pizza feeling brilliant talking about high brow and low brow topics for hours.
What I love about Anderson’s films that he’s never judgemental about his characters. No matter how flawed and broken they are, he always looks for the humanity in them.
Re: the conversion at about 8:30 to 8:45 - for the best ever scenes of characters "saying a lot about themselves" by how they have sex watch Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland in Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now. Pity PTA or Mike Figgis didn't mention it.
..Boogie Nights is on top ten movie list of all time.. interesting how here in 1998 both the interviewer and Paul are saying they are fed up with the way movies are going.. but, towards the late 90's there still were great wonderful movies.. American Beauty, A Bug's Life, American History X, Blade, ..to name a few
james williams This was also the year of saving Private Ryan. If he saw how many shit movies were going to be made post-2005 back then he probably would have committed suicide on the spot.
This only proof something, people always think they are the worst generation... in anytime, and they can only he how wrong the are, once the period in long past and you just objectively, and even in a romanticize fashion
The sixth sense , the green mile , Donnie Brasco , The Devil's Advocate , As Good As It Gets , Titanic ( it was actually a good film ) , doodlebug and etc .
Funny because a couple of years ago, he actually had a change of heart and when asked if he thinks there are too many superhero movies, he said this, "Ah, that's such a fucking crock of shit. I can't remember a year in recent memory where there were less complaints about the quality of movies. And what's wrong with superhero movies, you know? I don't know. You're talking to someone that enjoys watching those films. People need to get a life if they're having that discussion [laughs]. Those movies get a bad rap."-Paul Thomas Anderson
Because it didn't technically come out until a year after Boogie Nights and the internet was still new so your only means of research would be quotes from obscure magazine articles.
Not so. Hard Eight premiered at Sundance and Cannes in 1996 then theatrically in Feb 97. Boogie Nights came out October 97. But understandable that nobody had ever heard of Hard Eight because it grossed under a million dollars and Boogie Nights overshadowed it immediately. Like how nobody knew Whiplash was Chazelle’s second movie. Plus the interviewer isn’t a journalist, he’s the director Mike Figgis so this is just a chat, probably didn’t research.
@@noellozano2081 Kind of a losing battle since it's never been released as Sydney. Would be kinda nice if Criterion had done it that way or something. PTA has said he's alright with Hard Eight now.
I believe that ADULT films (as I prefere to call them) CAN be well made and have interesting & lets face it, sexy story lines i.e the high gloss private stuff, but there are also times when the story doesnt work, or there is too much of it. mainstream films about America's sex industry havent quite got it right yet, but its good knowing that the sex industry is acknowledged in films like this, THE GOOD GUYS, & even SWORD FISH. instead of pretending it doesnt exist, even in the more violent mainstream Hollywood films. BOOGIE NIGHTS best asset is its originality & daring taking on the subject matter, it seemed as if it would spark other films of it's kind, but it didnt, even though it is now thought of as a quiet underground classic
I mean he's a young writer/director in 1998 so he's acting like Tarantino, interviews after Magnolia you can tell he knows he's one of the greats and doesn't need to imitate anyone.
I don’t think he was imitating anyone, that’s just how he was then. Having a wife and kids and giving up coke will certainly change you for the better.
This has just got to be the best interview ever. Paul Thomas Anderson eating a pizza while talking about porn for 20 minutes.
I want to eat pizza and talk about porn got 20 minutes. Better yet eating pizza and WATCHING porn for 20 minutes.
Licorice PIzza if you will
Believe it or not, this guy who talks like this and eats pizza during the interview is one of the greatest filmmaker in 21st century.
Alfred Hitchcock he had the potential in the beginning
@Randy White Jonathan Glazer is the best
Randy White Ignore the normie
@@marshallzane7735 How am i a normie?
Alfred Hitchcock I knew you were still alive
Now I want want to eat pizza and watch Boogie Nights
I'm hungry!
Hell yeah man.
This is what I plan on doing tonight.
Not quite pizza for me, I'm eating pancakes + boogie nights.. but same difference.
for real
I could listen to him talk all day.
Jesus. Hearing this guy talk so enthusiastically about porno movies is simply amazing. Wish more directors were as daring and loose as him
"How does Forrest Gump have sex?" - Paul Thomas Anderson, 1998
Lol it is an interesting thing for a filmmaker to bring up, maybe it's one of many reasons why he's a superior director, since he sees the artistic merit in putting something like that in a movie whereas some might just dismiss that notion as lowbrow.
He had a point lol I no joke thought the EXACT same thing when I rewatched it a few months ago. I thought how did a retard have sex and why did this woman allow it?
He stays good looking no matter how old he gets
miss the young, smug, "i know im good" PTA... seems more humble and reserved now.
bobcharlotte Why? He makes better and more cerebral films now. (The Master excluded). His hubris is detectable throughout Boogie Nights. Not so much as QT's, but definitely noticeable. I feel like his humanity has helped him grow as a filmmaker.
Flip/Side you didn't like the master
Sam Baron I loved The Master
+bobcharlotte I totally agree. After Magnolia and Boogie nights, he appeared arrogant (in a somewhat likeable way) as if he knew he was the bollocks - which he is. Now in interviews, like you say, he's humble and doesn't visually express his knowledge of knowing he's probably the best working filmmaker
Getting married and having a few kids will do that you.
How can anyone not love this guy? His knowledge and joy of cinema is contagious, in large part thanks to his ease at expressing complex ideas in few and clear words, as well as his utter lack of pretentiousness.
Then you hear interviews for The Phantom Thread, and it's immediately apparent that success and fame never went to his head.
Hands down the best PTA interview ever. He’s less playful and more reserved in recent interviews which are great but the pure passion for film (and porn) in this is an absolute joy.
Well, you can tell there's a lot less cocaine use these days. PTA has borderline Tarantino-energy here.
Every so often I come back to this interview, just so I can soak up whatever potent energy this has, and work it into my own thing I've got going.
This interview changed my life in so many ways, and that's not an exaggeration.
the energy is called "cocaine"
@@hannahbould7225 i love it!
PUNCH DRUNK LOVE, he's kind of hinting towards that at the very end, speaking of romantic-comedies. I love PTA
How romantic movies should be made.
I finally ate a slice of pizza while i watched this.. always makes me want pizza when i re-watch this
I love this interview. I've been watching it for like... 7 years and still am enamored by it. I also think the interviewer needs a ton of credit. He asks some great questions and you can tell he really engages Paul who, at the time, was super high energy.
The interviewer is Mike Figgis, an excellent director in his own right (Leaving Las Vegas).
15:16 "[laughing] I'm gonna be the young filmmaker with fuckin' pizza in the interview."
- Paul Thomas Anderson
Damn, the passion for film in this room is thick in the air. I wish I could be there.
What's funny is how similar his mannerisms are to John C. Reilly's character in Boogie Nights.
I imagine myself in college talking to a guy like this in a dorm..make me miss those days (I'm about his age) in college when we'd sit around eating pizza feeling brilliant talking about high brow and low brow topics for hours.
Wonder if college people are still talking about big and little things like that or just on their games or something like that
@@Je-Vetteprobably on their game ! And vapes too ! Miss those old days !!
Honestly, one of the greatest filmmakers of the last fifty years.
25 years.... right down in the middle
Best interview ever. The cutting too is just amazing
Love this interview.
He was cocky,down to earth and funny.
Still can't believe this absolute madman was only 26 when he made Boogie Nights
This is High quality for 1998
Boogie Nights is still my all time Fav Film♡
@Dirk Diggler of course I have. :)
@Dirk Diggler haha. Nice. Enjoy!
Same here!
This guy is very honest with himself. I can see why he is so successful.
so handsome
Fucking love that he mentioned Johnny fucking waddddd
epic interview, great to see someone talk about porn and fucking without trying to make awkward jokes or dance around it
Very candid, honest interview. Right down to him eating pizza in the middle of it lol
Maya is so lucky. I love him.
I adore this man
20:31 Sounds like early thought process for Punch Drunk Love!
Him and Kubrick are my all time favs
8:19 And that explains The Master ending.
This is the best of PTA interviews and it’s underground too. My man my guru PTA ❤❤❤
How delightfully ironic that now the official title for the upcoming PTA movie is "Licorice Pizza".
I still can't believe this is one of the best filmmakers of all time
What I love about Anderson’s films that he’s never judgemental about his characters. No matter how flawed and broken they are, he always looks for the humanity in them.
Greatest filmmakers of this generation!
19:58 And a couple of years later Christopher Nolan came along and made his wishes come true
what a great interviewer
Best interview ever
That slice of pizza really made me hungry.
The master himself
One of the best ,great film maker ,if not the best ,his point of view is inspiring ,thanks for the vid...
Amazing interview.
Best interview ever hahahaha.
Maybe that's punch drunk love he is talking about at the end
He starts talking about his dad Ernie Anderson, Ghoulardi, at 17:28.
This is the best PTA interview ever.
Re: the conversion at about 8:30 to 8:45 - for the best ever scenes of characters "saying a lot about themselves" by how they have sex watch Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland in Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now. Pity PTA or Mike Figgis didn't mention it.
..Boogie Nights is on top ten movie list of all time.. interesting how here in 1998 both the interviewer and Paul are saying they are fed up with the way movies are going.. but, towards the late 90's there still were great wonderful movies.. American Beauty, A Bug's Life, American History X, Blade, ..to name a few
james williams This was also the year of saving Private Ryan. If he saw how many shit movies were going to be made post-2005 back then he probably would have committed suicide on the spot.
This only proof something, people always think they are the worst generation... in anytime, and they can only he how wrong the are, once the period in long past and you just objectively, and even in a romanticize fashion
The sixth sense , the green mile , Donnie Brasco , The Devil's Advocate , As Good As It Gets , Titanic ( it was actually a good film ) , doodlebug and etc .
Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Reservoir Dogs
Funny because a couple of years ago, he actually had a change of heart and when asked if he thinks there are too many superhero movies, he said this, "Ah, that's such a fucking crock of shit. I can't remember a year in recent memory where there were less complaints about the quality of movies. And what's wrong with superhero movies, you know? I don't know. You're talking to someone that enjoys watching those films. People need to get a life if they're having that discussion [laughs]. Those movies get a bad rap."-Paul Thomas Anderson
20:42 The birth of Punch Drunk Love !
This is a sexy sexy interview
"I'm badmouthing The Cause."Uh-oh, you know what Joaquin does when you badmouth the Cause.
So good, man...so good you PIG FUCK! Oh, sorry, I lost my temper there.
This is behaving like a dirty animal that eats its own feces when hungry!
@@tuanjim799 Naughty boy, alright?!
Also... like how at the end he kinda predicted him making Punch Drunk Love with the untraditional romantic comedy.
It's fucking great
I was in the industry for 12 years.
Thus came punch drunk love.
Me watching this: "This happens. This is something that happens."
How do you interview PTA and not know Hard 8 is his first feature???!
Because it didn't technically come out until a year after Boogie Nights and the internet was still new so your only means of research would be quotes from obscure magazine articles.
Not so. Hard Eight premiered at Sundance and Cannes in 1996 then theatrically in Feb 97. Boogie Nights came out October 97. But understandable that nobody had ever heard of Hard Eight because it grossed under a million dollars and Boogie Nights overshadowed it immediately. Like how nobody knew Whiplash was Chazelle’s second movie. Plus the interviewer isn’t a journalist, he’s the director Mike Figgis so this is just a chat, probably didn’t research.
It's called Sydney bro 🤦♂️
@@noellozano2081 Kind of a losing battle since it's never been released as Sydney. Would be kinda nice if Criterion had done it that way or something. PTA has said he's alright with Hard Eight now.
@@davidhiltner7288 I'd really love to see Criterion give "Hard Eight" a release. (I stupidly lost my old DVD copy somewhere along the way.)
Best filmmaker ever
Paul Thomas Anderson, Porn and Pizza. This is the fucking heaven?
The interviewer is cracking me up. "Ohhh yes I love porn"
I can tell he's picturing what would become Punch Drunk Love near the end of the interview
I really wish he made wonderland
7:50 was my favorite part
Until I saw 15:08 - 15:30
Gotta love the intercut of pta talking over pta eatin pizza
This whole thing is hilarious. How does Forrest Gump have sex? haha.
PTA 💖
Knowing he loves Pynchon and ended up adapting one of his books, I am always curious if his pizza eating is a nod to Pynchon!
That pizza looking so good ngl
I believe that ADULT films (as I prefere to call them) CAN be well made and have interesting & lets face it, sexy story lines i.e the high gloss private stuff, but there are also times when the story doesnt work, or there is too much of it. mainstream films about America's sex industry havent quite got it right yet, but its good knowing that the sex industry is acknowledged in films like this, THE GOOD GUYS, & even SWORD FISH. instead of pretending it doesnt exist, even in the more violent mainstream Hollywood films.
BOOGIE NIGHTS best asset is its originality & daring taking on the subject matter, it seemed as if it would spark other films of it's kind, but it didnt, even though it is now thought of as a quiet underground classic
4:59 makes me die every time
talking about porn and eating pizza, my favourite director
"An intelligent Godzilla movie" - PTA predicted Godzilla Minus One 25 years ago
hermoso bb
Paul! Chew!
Fucking great interview
I mean he's a young writer/director in 1998 so he's acting like Tarantino, interviews after Magnolia you can tell he knows he's one of the greats and doesn't need to imitate anyone.
I don’t think he was imitating anyone, that’s just how he was then. Having a wife and kids and giving up coke will certainly change you for the better.
"save me"
What's he holding in his left hand?
Pizza
Ironic enough I just had pizza before this ... But it's November.
At the end of the interview you can kind of tell the wheels are already spinning in his head (re romantic comedy) to where Punch Drunk Love comes out
I wonder if that's Licorice Pizza he's eating?
PTA seems like the friend you hope doesn't get high around you cuz he'll be annoying AF. 🤣🤣
I love high PTA.
I fucking love the pizza
15:27 - qt
Wait, is the interviewer the director of Leaving Las Vegas?
Nah man.
Yeah it is. Mike Figgis.
Look it up..
Talking just like tarantino here, makes sense that 15 mins in he says he hung out with him the other night.
This was definitely before he became vegan 😂
lol that intro is crazy long
PT Anderson and Quentin Tarantino used to have such a similar appeal.
There is the coldest pizza ever.
What’s the thing he’s holding in his hand the entire time? (Not the pizza)
Microphone
Howdy!!
the pizza interview
Yo mahn! “very!”
mike figgis and matt berry sound exactly the same