He got it from his famous father, Ernie Anderson who was the voice promo guy of ABC between the 60s and 1997. In fact, he makes a cameo in his first film called Hard Eight in 1996.
He is right. Energy doesn't shut down like that, it transfers itself to other domains. This is (imo) a key to motivation. Do something you're good at (e.g. playing sports) and right after take this energy into what's hard to do.
@@boiboi7717 Hell yeah, the debt’s a blast. And you get to look at your cool journalism degree while the vocation itself turns into goop. Sorry, I mean no ill will, I just had to.
This is true of most things. If you have a job that’s fast paced and high energy, a lot of times you will carry over that energy at home for at least an hour or two even though your day was physically demanding. There’s a momentum that sticks with a person.
@@starsareangels You think Anderson does coke? I’ve never even considered it, myself. (That Anderson would ever do it. Or me doing it either, really.) Edit: I probably should clarify that I mean Wes, in case anyone gets confused.
I love this. I’ve since used it as part of my process to find a story that excites me, think about it for a bit and then write the first draft. Waaaaayyyy easier than staring down that blank page which is terrifying.
Paul is such a weird character because he seems like such an ordanary Joe with an average IQ, yet he pumps out these catastrophically devestating works of art that no one can even understand upon 1st viewing lol
You are totally right: when I watch his movies I always expect that kind uplifting stories that leave you with a positive outlook of life, Then "There Will Be Blood" strikes...
I'm 24, and I realized only in the last month or two that there is a point in a piece of writing, where I'm flooded with a complete section of puzzle pieces for an even bigger puzzle. There will be a point where I'm trying to connect the dots between ideas and everything starts feeling muddy and uninteresting and only now do I stop before that even happen. I trust myself that those ideas for the next sections will come in time. It really can't be rushed, until the moment it is rushing out of you.
A friend and I play a game where we start stories, write a few lines, then swap, write a few more lines, and go on like that to the end of each page. We really like what we get from it and it made me realise in my own work that I could just sit down and start something out of the blue. In fact, this often tended to work better than the stories I'd been trying to work out in notebooks. Something about going with the flow. Also works well to start several stories in a row to improve the odds.
inherent vice is awesome, currently reading for second time... movie is good, but a neigh unfilmable source novel.., hes tossed around the idea of adaptin mason dixon or vineland which would work a lot better i think.
I think kits terry Pratchett maybe who says a similar thing. The best time to start writing your next book, is just after you're finished with the first one :D
Seems like great advice, but as a writer just “finishing” his first manuscript, it’s not always so cut and dry. The editing process leading up to publication can take over a year or longer, and once it’s published the demands of publicity and selling the thing come on. It feels like, in writing as opposed to filmmaking, there isn’t such a definite moment of completion.
@@bradleypeters708 Well done on the book dude. It's not easy, I suppose it depends on a whole host of variables- but also on that fleeting thing we like to call luck!
Can anyone explain how this would be applied to a newbie? What kind of energy can you bring in as someone not coming off a previous project? I have ideas for scripts and I never seem to actually get started.
@@plasticwrapcharlie Any ideas how to make succint 30 second promotional videos that are effective in the first 5 seconds? start with a strong line that aliviates them? makes them feel comprehended or an story?
@@obscure.reference I meant it's so great and very appreciated that it still might be underrated anyway. Why did you need the clarification of what words mean?
Joe Cook You’re the one who asked for clarification, you’re the one misusing the word. underrated would apply to something like Under the Silver Lake, which has a pretty low rating on most aggregates, despite being one of the most interesting films of the last decade. Boogie Nights is a known and appreciated film, with a public consensus that reflects that. underrated does not apply. it may be unknown in certain circles, but anybody who knows about movies at least knows of it.
Unless you make a movie about L. Ron Hubbard. Then pretend like you started with a completely blank page because you don't want to anger Scientologists.
It's true that logically he's not getting to the concrete point which the title of the video begs for. The answer is that when you want to write something creatively, you (as a suggestion) don't want to start the physical act of writing, with your mind as blank as the piece of paper. That is to say, you start with the idea, the inspiration, the energy, the thought that drives you - and you write that down. He's also connecting this approach with his idea of when you're most likely to be in the state of mind to get inspired thoughts and energy and ideas popping into your head. Namely, straight after you've finished something, some accomplishment that, in my view of it, can be anything which you've created or which occupied your mind and has now been brought to closure, and which feels rewarding, however small. So in brief: Writing starts in the mind, not with the blank piece of paper and your pen.
He's saying he takes the creative spark that is sort of forced to be on all the time when actually producing a film and proactively uses it for the next project he has in mind, as opposed to allowing himself to recover after finishing production and starting from a blank page. Starting a project from nothing is the worst part, you get overwhelmed and you don't know what you're going for. But if you're already in a creative frenzy, even the most mundane things will seem brilliant and you can make a lot more headway than you would just starting from scratch. At least that's my interpretation.
I don't think you're really supposed to, at least the first time through. Watching it again, the narrative is easier to pick up on, but the growing sense of unease and conspiracy and madness is kind of the point.
Everyone who thinks a film is something you need to "understand" (as if it's some kind of language) is not looking at art in the right way. As if every piece of art needs to have a clear thing about it that needs to be understood... Ridiculously stupid.
How is that stupid? Art IS a language. If you can't convey the meaning you intended, you haven't done your job and it's not really art. What is anything without meaning? If you paint something meaningless and it looks a certain way just because that's where the paint happened to land, it's just vomit, regardless of the fact it happens to make someone somewhere think about their lost love or their father's orchard. Film in particular is dependent entirely on the audience understanding precisely what the filmmaker is conveying, having no choice but to feel what the film intends for you to feel. That is very hard to do. It's very easy to create something that no one understands, then call it art for that very reason. PS I liked Inherent Vice - it was based on a book that had a precise point that had to be understood.
@@joelbizzell1386 PTA is saying that the energy from a recently finished project can carry over temporarily (and you can't relax during this phase; you're still "firing on all cylinders"). This happens to me all the time as a composer. He's saying that instead of staring at blank page for your next project, use your remaining bit of residue energy immediately from your last one to create a rough idea for the next endeavor
@@joelbizzell1386 He's saying immediately after, use your unrest to start an idea. Dont wait until youre recovered because you'll be sitting there staring at at blank page with much more difficulty getting started. Ps. Can you please stop being condescending and rudely sarcastic?
Wow. The fact that you couldn't take in anything he said, gives a new face and name to the expression that something 'falls on deaf ears'. And to think that your cynical attitude makes it so likely that his points would have been especially valuable to you.
inherent vice wasn't very good tbh, like the book is just ok, but the movie really took middling to a new level. i really lost interest in his advice as soon as he mentioned that he directed that film. be careful whose advice you take to heart folks
@@MJGianesello well sure that’s correct. Inherent Vice was a complete mess, phantom thread was boring as hell, and licorice pizza was one of the worst movies ever.. totally unwatchable. It’s just sad to me that such a genius mind could run out of ideas but I think that’s what happened
Love this channel. Great visuals to accompany brief nuggets of wisdom. Thank you for starting it.
His voice always reminded me of a happier, more articulate Kurt Cobain. lol. 🤷🏻♂️
@@TheProphegy Nice. When i was hearing it for the 2nd consecutive time it reminds me of Kurt's Diary book.
He got it from his famous father, Ernie Anderson who was the voice promo guy of ABC between the 60s and 1997. In fact, he makes a cameo in his first film called Hard Eight in 1996.
He is right. Energy doesn't shut down like that, it transfers itself to other domains.
This is (imo) a key to motivation. Do something you're good at (e.g. playing sports) and right after take this energy into what's hard to do.
Yesssss
Thats actually a great idea
@Prince of 1000 Enemies try again
Another cool technique I heard is to print something inspiring and write on the other side of the paper. Haven't tested it though :-D
@@boiboi7717 Hell yeah, the debt’s a blast. And you get to look at your cool journalism degree while the vocation itself turns into goop.
Sorry, I mean no ill will, I just had to.
So he's explaining the episode of Spongebob Squarepants when he has to write a report on stop lights?
The
@@Meeminator IM DOING IT, IM DOING IT IM DOING IT IM DOING IM DOING IT
Yes
That’s honestly how it feels to write sometimes lol
PTA's voice is so nice he should act or narrate something
he really should
Like his father!
I heard he was a flamer
@@TheVillagePeoplepod David Foster Wallace? Maybe?
his ideas are so brilliant! he should start directing too
This is true of most things. If you have a job that’s fast paced and high energy, a lot of times you will carry over that energy at home for at least an hour or two even though your day was physically demanding. There’s a momentum that sticks with a person.
It’s cute he refers to cocaine as the “coffee maker”
You mean Wes Anderson not PTA surely?
@@starsareangels You think Anderson does coke? I’ve never even considered it, myself. (That Anderson would ever do it. Or me doing it either, really.)
Edit: I probably should clarify that I mean Wes, in case anyone gets confused.
@@starsareangels Nah Wes is definitely something else. He's too precise and exact in his compositions to be on coke
@@mg6945 Then you haven't heard the rumors lol.
@@starsareangels guess I haven't
I love this. I’ve since used it as part of my process to find a story that excites me, think about it for a bit and then write the first draft. Waaaaayyyy easier than staring down that blank page which is terrifying.
Funny how this video pops up in my feed and next thing I find out is that today is his birthday! Happy birthday, PTA! You have a great legacy.
I love his "portrait of a man" storytelling style. All of his movies are great.
Paul is such a weird character because he seems like such an ordanary Joe with an average IQ, yet he pumps out these catastrophically devestating works of art that no one can even understand upon 1st viewing lol
wtf
hahahah totally agree
Nathan Beard :'D
Just goes to show
You are totally right: when I watch his movies I always expect that kind uplifting stories that leave you with a positive outlook of life, Then "There Will Be Blood" strikes...
I'm 24, and I realized only in the last month or two that there is a point in a piece of writing, where I'm flooded with a complete section of puzzle pieces for an even bigger puzzle. There will be a point where I'm trying to connect the dots between ideas and everything starts feeling muddy and uninteresting and only now do I stop before that even happen. I trust myself that those ideas for the next sections will come in time. It really can't be rushed, until the moment it is rushing out of you.
Shut up
@@rudolphschmidt313 I completely agree
@@BigBellyBrookes sorry
@@rudolphschmidt313 shut shut shut shut shut up!
I’m 24 as well. I’m glad I read this and will keep this in mind.
I like when he told his model girlfriend are you going on your March to nowhere? 😆
A friend and I play a game where we start stories, write a few lines, then swap, write a few more lines, and go on like that to the end of each page.
We really like what we get from it and it made me realise in my own work that I could just sit down and start something out of the blue. In fact, this often tended to work better than the stories I'd been trying to work out in notebooks. Something about going with the flow. Also works well to start several stories in a row to improve the odds.
source: the bill simmons podcast
Thank you!
It's that residual energy...
Good looking out thank you
This really should've been in the description. Thanks
This extract is like my mantra to keep on writting or learning.....
Ok why is this recommended
All day I think about filmmaking but I've never searched
Thoughts become things. You create your own reality by your thoughts, spoken out loud or not 💫
ben affleck said in an acceptance speech once that paul thomas anderson is our orson welles. that pretty much sums it up in my book
Every time I scroll by this video, the thumbnail tricks me into thinking it's about The Lighthouse
No reason to stress or worry about it. The moment you look at a blank page it's not blank anymore.
Weird thing to say. Pseudo-wisdom which is clearly just not true or enlightening in any capacity for that matter
@@phillystevesteak6982 open your mind
@Philly Steve Steak… Unless PLK has any further elucidations to back up this statement. PLK, care to break it down for us?
But it stays blank lol
finally some one who makes sense tyvm Paul for the tips
thank you
fabulous
Is he talking about Phantom Thread?
yes. This audio clip is from The Bill Simmons Podcast.
Just found the channel. So good! A collection of great creative minds sharing knowledge. 🤝🌹
That's Lord PTA speaking. 🙏
Thanks for the video. Would be great too if you could include a link to the full interview on these videos
I could never lay out any story without being able to see the ending frame for frame in my head.
I really need to work with him.
This is a good channel.
inherent vice is awesome, currently reading for second time... movie is good, but a neigh unfilmable source novel.., hes tossed around the idea of adaptin mason dixon or vineland which would work a lot better i think.
Imagine him trying to adapt gravity’s rainbow
I like it more when he just writes it all and it comes from nowhere.
Incredible director, but I think he’s one of the best screenwriters alive today
the only great directors are the ones that write their screenplays or at least radically own it like Kubrick did with steven King's shining
I think kits terry Pratchett maybe who says a similar thing. The best time to start writing your next book, is just after you're finished with the first one :D
Seems like great advice, but as a writer just “finishing” his first manuscript, it’s not always so cut and dry. The editing process leading up to publication can take over a year or longer, and once it’s published the demands of publicity and selling the thing come on. It feels like, in writing as opposed to filmmaking, there isn’t such a definite moment of completion.
@@bradleypeters708 Well done on the book dude. It's not easy, I suppose it depends on a whole host of variables- but also on that fleeting thing we like to call luck!
This is the writing process.
Can anyone explain how this would be applied to a newbie? What kind of energy can you bring in as someone not coming off a previous project? I have ideas for scripts and I never seem to actually get started.
Good question
Wtf is this video even saying???
@@jasonsteves734 well the one thing I did understand was that you start typing the script with a well turned-over idea already in mind
@@plasticwrapcharlie Any ideas how to make succint 30 second promotional videos that are effective in the first 5 seconds? start with a strong line that aliviates them? makes them feel comprehended or an story?
Agree with him 100%
Boogie Nights is rated as a great, but it still might be underrated?
that isn’t what the word means
reference which word means what?
Joe Cook “rated as great... might be underrated” is a contradiction. it’s a beloved film, and a pretty popular one. not underrated.
@@obscure.reference I meant it's so great and very appreciated that it still might be underrated anyway. Why did you need the clarification of what words mean?
Joe Cook You’re the one who asked for clarification, you’re the one misusing the word. underrated would apply to something like Under the Silver Lake, which has a pretty low rating on most aggregates, despite being one of the most interesting films of the last decade. Boogie Nights is a known and appreciated film, with a public consensus that reflects that. underrated does not apply. it may be unknown in certain circles, but anybody who knows about movies at least knows of it.
I just ‘collapsed’ after something, and now i know to not do THAT again.
Gem.
I drew a peepee
It’s the first step to writing the best screenplay to be debut on pornhub! 😂
love pta.
i didnt understand what he said.
Unless you make a movie about L. Ron Hubbard. Then pretend like you started with a completely blank page because you don't want to anger Scientologists.
The Master?
THE LIGHTING HAS TO BE EXACTLY RIGHT
Source?
This is from the Bill Simmons Podcast from earlier this year
I have no idea what he’s saying
It's true that logically he's not getting to the concrete point which the title of the video begs for. The answer is that when you want to write something creatively, you (as a suggestion) don't want to start the physical act of writing, with your mind as blank as the piece of paper. That is to say, you start with the idea, the inspiration, the energy, the thought that drives you - and you write that down. He's also connecting this approach with his idea of when you're most likely to be in the state of mind to get inspired thoughts and energy and ideas popping into your head. Namely, straight after you've finished something, some accomplishment that, in my view of it, can be anything which you've created or which occupied your mind and has now been brought to closure, and which feels rewarding, however small. So in brief: Writing starts in the mind, not with the blank piece of paper and your pen.
This is the guy who made Monster Hunter, right
@Fee Fee they aren't the same person, this was a joke.
@Fee Fee That's your reaction to looking slightly silly for not realizing the two dudes aren't the same person? You should seriously consider therapy.
@Fee Fee I really feel kind of bad for you right now in case anyone else reads this exchange in the future.
Shouldn't it be Paul Neo Anderson?
I don’t get it.
But all pages are blank to begin with.
Can someone explain wtf this means
He's saying he takes the creative spark that is sort of forced to be on all the time when actually producing a film and proactively uses it for the next project he has in mind, as opposed to allowing himself to recover after finishing production and starting from a blank page. Starting a project from nothing is the worst part, you get overwhelmed and you don't know what you're going for. But if you're already in a creative frenzy, even the most mundane things will seem brilliant and you can make a lot more headway than you would just starting from scratch. At least that's my interpretation.
@@mizurjell9534 ohh I see what you mean. Thanks for the explanation.
mas pankeko!!! mas pankeko!!! ..........josh brolin
Did literally anyone understand inherent vice
Yes
Mo Read the book. And the title inherent vice has its own meaning that plays into the craziness of the book/film and the late 60s early 70s.
I don't think you're really supposed to, at least the first time through. Watching it again, the narrative is easier to pick up on, but the growing sense of unease and conspiracy and madness is kind of the point.
Everyone who thinks a film is something you need to "understand" (as if it's some kind of language) is not looking at art in the right way. As if every piece of art needs to have a clear thing about it that needs to be understood... Ridiculously stupid.
How is that stupid? Art IS a language. If you can't convey the meaning you intended, you haven't done your job and it's not really art. What is anything without meaning? If you paint something meaningless and it looks a certain way just because that's where the paint happened to land, it's just vomit, regardless of the fact it happens to make someone somewhere think about their lost love or their father's orchard. Film in particular is dependent entirely on the audience understanding precisely what the filmmaker is conveying, having no choice but to feel what the film intends for you to feel. That is very hard to do. It's very easy to create something that no one understands, then call it art for that very reason.
PS I liked Inherent Vice - it was based on a book that had a precise point that had to be understood.
kickthepj said something similar, to just free write gibberish and sift through the garbage
Wdym?
Blur 🌪
Libro Incongruencias pseudointelectuales
I thought this was going to be a realistic sketch video
I’m going to start with a blank page 😎
There you go. Be brave enough to stare it directly in the face.
This told me nothing
does anyone else hear a very slight Scottish accent in his voice?
He is smart one in many ways. How doensn’t love him especially as an actor.
Any real writer ain't taking this guy's advice-a blank page,a clean slate is the best:)
Tarantino disagress ;)
Comon. U can do more than 2min this is not tiktok it's writing ffs
Wow. This is pretentious.
He is literally saying nothing.
😆
@@hobochangba7638 Relax, sport.
He's not skimming the comment sections for suckups.
@@joelbizzell1386 PTA is saying that the energy from a recently finished project can carry over temporarily (and you can't relax during this phase; you're still "firing on all cylinders"). This happens to me all the time as a composer. He's saying that instead of staring at blank page for your next project, use your remaining bit of residue energy immediately from your last one to create a rough idea for the next endeavor
@@phillystevesteak6982
So he's saying start another project once one is finished?
Golly, that's some groundbreaking stuff, right there!
@@joelbizzell1386 He's saying immediately after, use your unrest to start an idea. Dont wait until youre recovered because you'll be sitting there staring at at blank page with much more difficulty getting started.
Ps. Can you please stop being condescending and rudely sarcastic?
Wow. The fact that you couldn't take in anything he said, gives a new face and name to the expression that something 'falls on deaf ears'. And to think that your cynical attitude makes it so likely that his points would have been especially valuable to you.
His movies still suck
All overrated academy award bait
... And and so was joker 2019
inherent vice wasn't very good tbh, like the book is just ok, but the movie really took middling to a new level. i really lost interest in his advice as soon as he mentioned that he directed that film. be careful whose advice you take to heart folks
Because of one movie? That discredits him entirely for you?
@@phillystevesteak6982 I am entitled to be as choosy as I feel when it comes to advice. that movie blew.
@@larsfinlay7325 From a pure writing perspective, none of his films are very good.
You haven’t made a good movie in 11 years.
Sounds more like you haven't had a good take on a PTA movie in 11 years
@@MJGianesello well sure that’s correct. Inherent Vice was a complete mess, phantom thread was boring as hell, and licorice pizza was one of the worst movies ever.. totally unwatchable. It’s just sad to me that such a genius mind could run out of ideas but I think that’s what happened
Not a blank page. A page with Ben Shapiro on it is how you start writing
This is one of the worst directors/writers ever