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
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?
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.
..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 know it's nitpicking and his first film didn't receive that much attention, but if you're interviewing a guy how would you not know that this isn't his first film?
Paul demonstrates fine insight into porn movies and what makes it good or bad. Maybe the humor and sex I don't like as much as he does. The sex in Bogey nights was not sexy at all, by design, I dont know.
Kinda weird that he speaks of Boogie Nights as being about porn. I've seen it many times and what it's about is emotional pain. Was dude working from his subconscious? I don't get it. Like, he didn't even know his own film.
Anthony Scully maybe they arent meant to be fully grasped and absorbed in one single viewing... because of their length, being the quality films that they are... they become timeless and get disected for years. Stanley Kubricks movies are studied decades later and now have accumulated several different interpretations on the same film, that are all valid. Movies like “fight club” is a excellent movie, with brilliant cuts, clever story, substance details, and a action filled, entertaining performance with a short runtime.... as great a movie as “fight club” is, its already been looked over and moved on from. While a movie from the same era like , Eyes Wide Shut.. ur still able to experience and even realize something new and or learn something new with each viewing... its meant to be a specimin of quality filmmaking to be disected many ways and experienced more than once.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
Jesus. Hearing this guy talk so enthusiastically about porno movies is simply amazing. Wish more directors were as daring and loose as him
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.
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.
He stays good looking no matter how old he gets
What's funny is how similar his mannerisms are to John C. Reilly's character in Boogie Nights.
15:16 "[laughing] I'm gonna be the young filmmaker with fuckin' pizza in the interview."
- Paul Thomas Anderson
I finally ate a slice of pizza while i watched this.. always makes me want pizza when i re-watch this
"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?
How delightfully ironic that now the official title for the upcoming PTA movie is "Licorice Pizza".
Still can't believe this absolute madman was only 26 when he made Boogie Nights
This is High quality for 1998
Very candid, honest interview. Right down to him eating pizza in the middle of it lol
This is the best of PTA interviews and it’s underground too. My man my guru PTA ❤❤❤
so handsome
Fucking love that he mentioned Johnny fucking waddddd
20:31 Sounds like early thought process for Punch Drunk Love!
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.
That slice of pizza really made me hungry.
8:19 And that explains The Master ending.
The master himself
..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
This is a sexy sexy interview
Best interview ever hahahaha.
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.)
"An intelligent Godzilla movie" - PTA predicted Godzilla Minus One 25 years ago
I can tell he's picturing what would become Punch Drunk Love near the end of the interview
Maybe that's punch drunk love he is talking about at the end
Paul Thomas Anderson, Porn and Pizza. This is the fucking heaven?
19:58 And a couple of years later Christopher Nolan came along and made his wishes come true
Gotta love the intercut of pta talking over pta eatin pizza
This whole thing is hilarious. How does Forrest Gump have sex? haha.
20:42 The birth of Punch Drunk Love !
It's fucking great
Me watching this: "This happens. This is something that happens."
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 really wish he made wonderland
I was in the industry for 12 years.
PTA 💖
Fucking great interview
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
Ironic enough I just had pizza before this ... But it's November.
I know it's nitpicking and his first film didn't receive that much attention, but if you're interviewing a guy how would you not know that this isn't his first film?
If you're referring to boogie nights it isn't his first film, it's hard eight
@@dylanr.976 yes but the interviewer thought boogie nights was his first
This was definitely before he became vegan 😂
mike figgis and matt berry sound exactly the same
the pizza interview
15:27 - qt
There is the coldest pizza ever.
Yo mahn! “very!”
I want pizza now
The coke years.
Has he said that he used to do coke? Because idk to me in this interview I just get a really passionate film-nerd vibe not a coked out vibe.
Paul demonstrates fine insight into porn movies and what makes it good or bad. Maybe the humor and sex I don't like as much as he does. The sex in Bogey nights was not sexy at all, by design, I dont know.
Looks like he was eating pizza while talking
Well, he should have eaten that script for Licorice Pizza. It sucked😮
Seems like a cannabis success story.
Kinda weird that he speaks of Boogie Nights as being about porn. I've seen it many times and what it's about is emotional pain. Was dude working from his subconscious? I don't get it. Like, he didn't even know his own film.
Ahhh cocaine!
Talks a million miles an hour while constantly rubbing and fiddling with his nose and sniffing. 😆
150 minutes is too long
great film maker but (like scorsese) his running times are too long
Mart J
Well done.
Anthony Scully maybe they arent meant to be fully grasped and absorbed in one single viewing... because of their length, being the quality films that they are... they become timeless and get disected for years. Stanley Kubricks movies are studied decades later and now have accumulated several different interpretations on the same film, that are all valid. Movies like “fight club” is a excellent movie, with brilliant cuts, clever story, substance details, and a action filled, entertaining performance with a short runtime.... as great a movie as “fight club” is, its already been looked over and moved on from. While a movie from the same era like , Eyes Wide Shut.. ur still able to experience and even realize something new and or learn something new with each viewing... its meant to be a specimin of quality filmmaking to be disected many ways and experienced more than once.
NOPE just no
+Slime Squad
Well put. Every PT Anderson film I've seen has rewarded repeating viewings. That's true of most great art. It keeps on giving.
I could listen to him talk all day.
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.
epic interview, great to see someone talk about porn and fucking without trying to make awkward jokes or dance around it
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.
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).
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
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!
Maya is so lucky. I love him.
Honestly, one of the greatest filmmakers of the last fifty years.
25 years.... right down in the middle
The interviewer is cracking me up. "Ohhh yes I love porn"
Damn, the passion for film in this room is thick in the air. I wish I could be there.
Also... like how at the end he kinda predicted him making Punch Drunk Love with the untraditional romantic comedy.
"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?!
Best interview ever. The cutting too is just amazing
This guy is very honest with himself. I can see why he is so successful.
PTA seems like the friend you hope doesn't get high around you cuz he'll be annoying AF. 🤣🤣
Him and Kubrick are my all time favs
Love this interview.
He was cocky,down to earth and funny.
talking about porn and eating pizza, my favourite director
I wonder if that's Licorice Pizza he's eating?
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.
Thus came punch drunk love.
Wait, is the interviewer the director of Leaving Las Vegas?
Nah man.
Yeah it is. Mike Figgis.
Look it up..
What's he holding in his left hand?
Pizza
I adore this man
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!
4:59 makes me die every time
11 Oscar nominations and no win so far tells me everything I need to know about that clown price.
Boogie Nights is still my all time Fav Film♡
@Dirk Diggler of course I have. :)
@Dirk Diggler haha. Nice. Enjoy!
Same here!
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.
He starts talking about his dad Ernie Anderson, Ghoulardi, at 17:28.
Greatest filmmakers of this generation!
Best interview ever
"save me"
I still can't believe this is one of the best filmmakers of all time
what a great interviewer
That pizza looking so good ngl
7:50 was my favorite part
Until I saw 15:08 - 15:30