Director Paul Thomas Anderson Talks 'Inherent Vice'

In this week's VICE Meets, Meredith Danluck sits down for a rare one-on-one interview with director Paul Thomas Anderson to talk about his most recent feature, Inherent Vice. The film is an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, and the first time the author's work has been set to screen.
Set in the 1970s, Inherent Vice follows the paranoid, drug-addled misadventures of an LA detective (played by Joaquin Phoenix) who is chasing a case brought to him by an ex-girlfriend about her boyfriend, his wife, and a plot to kidnap a billionaire.
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[@jeffbriggs1987]

This guy's movies are amazing, every time I watch one of his movies I feel weird afterwards like reality itself has changed.

[@RobertBucchianeri--Author]

I feel the same way. My favorite director. His movies just have an electricity, a vive, life force I don't get from any other film maker.

[@brendantaylor3570]

Robert Bucchianeri Agreed with both of you...I think it's his level of emotion/imagination inherent in his personality that translates in all of his films. Great filmmakers can create a world of their own to a degree.

[@aintnoluckitsskillz]

I know what you mean. Inherent Vice and The Master in particular.

[@dfaz917]

J Briggs Same I get it from other directors too like Harmony Korine. Good books as well

[@BrettWPlank]

The opening scene of Magnolia gives me the chills - he knows how to work your emotions.

[@Mvila23]

Such an underrated gem. It's the type of film where the more you watch it, the better and better it gets.

[@Gilgaemesh]

Yes.

[@TANTHEMANFILMS]

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[@jonassteinberg3779]

completely agree

[@WW-sx5zu]

but what’s the point of it’s appeal, if it doesn’t make any sense? Nothing at all

[@davidlean1060]

@@WW-sx5zu Yes it does. You have to remember though, you are seeing the events unfold through the eyes of Doc, a guy who is wacked out on something or other throughout the film. Some stuff he sees is happening, other things are reveries and hallucinations. The second Shasta visit is a reverie for example. If you research Pynchon and how he wrote and what he wrote about in general, you'll get more of a feel for the world as Pynchon paints it.

[@packers3245]

How PT Anderson has not won an oscar is beyond me.....He is a fucking genius. Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, The Master.....and now Inherent Vice. COME ON ACADEMY!

[@gloverelaxis]

I loved Vice and Blood, but Magnolia infuriated me like no other film ever has. I despise that fucking movie so much. It was so full of itself and so unearned.

[@benjamindixon1904]

@@gloverelaxis not disagreeing but how was it full of itself? I like magnolia but there were definitely some cringe parts like the frog scene

[@codyhooks7410]

PTA joins Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, Stanley Kubrick, and countless foreign masters who haven’t won one. Honestly between the directors who’ve won one and the field who hasn’t, I’ll go field. So many greats go unnoticed/get one as an honorary award when they’re 80+.

[@wilwilson8146]

Golden fang dont want him to have one

[@user-gg6sh7wr6d]

@@codyhooks7410 orson Welles as well

[@purpletrillwave]

Greatest living filmmaker.

[@ryansymons9200]

Marty great too, little old

[@ThaloniusPFunk]

I love PTA, but u do realize Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese are still alive?

[@purpletrillwave]

Marcus Golden Coppola has been shit in the last decades, and it was more of an at the moment thing

[@Pantano63]

Marcus Golden Coppola is creatively dead, but Scorsese is still great. Talent is funny.

[@purpletrillwave]

Leonard H his films have great energy, especially considering his age

[@kryptonickraze]

This movie is basically a paranoid 70s version of The Big Lebowski. Awesome.

[@themattpack1]

Not really

[@tonywords6713]

That movie already exists though it's called the long goodbye

[@RobertSlover]

@@tonywords6713 excellent! robert altman and elliot gould

[@StezeSix]

It looks like he stole that sweater, straight up from Daniel Plainview.

[@HJSchulze]

Steve F o

[@autumnisbetterthanspring]

@maciverandy1 I'VE ABANDONED MY STYLE!

[@lukedarling8360]

right after he drunk his milkshake.

[@tonywords6713]

Mr Anderson is very clever in that he never over intellectualizes the subconcious and unconcious themes but lets them flow naturally.

[@citizentuck]

One thing that really stood out to me was how PERFECTLY he used Neil young's harvest.

[@johnwayne7201]

8 years later and this comment never rang more true

[@quinn959]

PTA is unquestionably the greatest living filmmaker at this point. This guy just blows my mind with every new picture. A lot of people are completely missing the point of this film and the style PTA was going for. One of the best of the year without a doubt though. PTA is a GOD!

[@guciowitomski3825]

with every picture apart from anything related to Jackass But, yeah, he is the greatest alive right now. He might be one of the best of all time

[@tantivymuckermaffikk]

The greatest director working today. Will one day sit alongside Kubrick, Kurosawa, Herzog, as the greatest ever.

[@vorjay]

no, just no!

[@EisforEvil]

Stop.

[@Hangglidersinspace]

Ohhhhh, I think I remember something about people posting accepted social truths disguised as legitimate praise. Great job.

[@vorjay]

***** apparently you haven't watched inherent vice

[@vorjay]

***** it was garbage, an unfunny embarrassment of a film. A wannabe Big Lebowski.

[@guciowitomski3825]

I love this movie so much. I can watch it literally on repeat, because as soon as the end credits roll I don't remember a single plot point. It's just like with "The Big Sleep" with Humphrey Boggart. As soon as the end credits roll, you can rewatch it again happily, as you don't remember who was the culprit.

[@Sunviewer338]

I totally agree. I think you can zone out and come back to it and pick right back up.

[@guciowitomski3825]

@@Sunviewer338 all the characters being stoned all the time certainly helps with that They don’t know what’s happening either

[@hermanmelville3871]

Finally an interview with a real director!

[@purpletrillwave]

Hey Bennet Miller is pretty great too

[@circularsky]

Iker C Ehhh....

[@CitizenToxie72]

too bad the interviewer sucks

[@hermanmelville3871]

CitizenToxie72 Vice isn't exactly known for having the best interviewers. I'm just happy that it wasn't some entitled hipster being rammed down our throats.

[@CitizenToxie72]

Herman Melville Im pretty unfamiliar with their shit so I wouldn't know. I was excited to watch this but ended up turning it off about half way through

[@GiantSandles]

Inherent Vice was really underrated, I enjoyed it pretty much the whole way through despite the plot not being the most coherent towards the end. I've not watched it again yet but it's probably better on repeat viewings too, like all of his stuff since Punch Drunk Love (which I remember not liking very much at all when I first saw it and now it might be my favourite movie)

[@GiantSandles]

Nové Můra Thanks for letting me know I'm objectively wrong, I'm gonna stop enjoying the movie now

[@withnail-and-i]

I think it's vastly underrated

[@Sunviewer338]

It's impossible for me to overstate how much I love this movie. Having said that, it's not for everyone.

[@Aldarux]

Please, more interviews like this, VICE! I love this sort of stuff.

[@bredlo]

It's nice to see Zach Galafanakis slimming down and getting serious for a change.

[@mitchellhughes5180]

Ba dum tss!

[@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

It's nice that some dude who hasn't written a thing can make a comment without the pleasure of being asked. Enjoy your nine to five you f word for cuss. Your girlfriend must be proud how you can fart in front of her and think it's cute and not just you being lazy. ,dan'

[@reuben7548]

?

[@skyblueerik]

I have been looking forward to this for a very long time, watched the trailer a million times, and now it's not going to be at any theater near me (at least not right away). FML.

[@TheLivirus]

Would this interview have happened if "vice" wasn't in the title?

[@gwkonyoutube]

Nope!

[@natefusillo6578]

Awesome director. Awesome interviewer. Asked some uniquely good questions, seemed to really get it. Hell yeah

[@tommyo.3535]

It never occurred to me until now that every good screenwriter has probably memorized their entire script...

[@jamesdelcol3701]

I read Pynchon. This movie had that feel. I don't know how they captured all that so nicely. Paul is kind of amazing. Pynchon is by far the hardest literary writer. His narratives are never linear. The script must have been like a madman's writings.

[@TotFilmsProduction]

When I first watched the film I kind of though it was boring... Then I watched it for the second time, I LOVED it! LOVED IT I TELL YA!

[@majortom4658]

You got it right the first time & the novel is even worse, boring is an understatement for this film It was so obvious that he was never stoned during any of the movie & pretending to smoke weed & trying to be funny was exhausting to watch !

[@itsaUSBline]

@@majortom4658 Haven't seen the movie yet but I just finished the novel and it was absolutely incredible. The sheer precision of Pynchon's prose is truly something to behold, and I wonder how well that could translate to film, because a lot of the important meaning and context for things that happen is expressed through the phrasing and way that things are described within the book's narration rather than what's actually happening.

[@BenjaminQuinlan]

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I found this interview style refreshing. I like the conversation-style much better than those terrible recycled questions that directors and actors have to churn out the same b.s. for.

[@dl5272]

I randomly clicked on 5 spots throughout this video, she was talking in 4 of them.

[@axl1555]

this dosen't mean shit, random is random

[@d1e1c0k2]

I've seen Inherant Vice 4 times now I think and I'm still not 100% sure what actually f*ckin' happens

[@jonassteinberg3779]

This is the only movie I've ever seen where I can confidently say that the confusing part is the amount of dialogue which is plot critical that might slip by the first several viewings, as opposed to "this is vapid pretense passing as art". The plot is there. I've seen it about 10 times now and I get pretty much exactly what's happening. It's just that there's a lot of important dialogue.

[@WW-sx5zu]

@@jonassteinberg3779 so what’s happening? :)))

[@davidlean1060]

@@WW-sx5zu As wolfman tells Doc early on, 'she's gone'. She got caught up with Wolfman and that was that. There are a number of different stories that intersect, much like in Magnolia, only in this film, we see the events through the eyes of Doc, who is stoned the whole movie! He's not an unreliable narrator as such, he just too high to see things as they are. Often times, things that appear to be happening to Doc are drug fueled reveries! Shasta's second visit to him, that's in Doc's imagination. For a better insight, I'd take a look at the wiki guide to the novel. It will go in to 'the day that happens twice'. That may help you get the movie more.

[@gozirimuu]

I love how PTA is so very American, he’s the embodiment of the true American spirit in a filmmaker. Lovely stuff

[@JohnnyComelately-eb5zv]

What on earth does that mean?

[@BubbaHotepMothership]

Anderson, great director meets Thomas Pynchon who has to be our greatest living novelist. I’m reading Pynchon’s “Against The Day.” Amazing. So good it’s impossible to put down & impossible to read in the time of COVID. Reviewers said the book doesn’t need to be not read it needs to be studied.

[@davidlean1060]

I just watched The Master and there is a reference to the book title in a line spoken by Dodd. 'we fought against the day and we won, we won'.

[@theunpossiblefile]

@David Lean - I remember The Master fight scene between Hoffman as L Ron Hubbard & Phoenix. I’ll see it again. “Against The Day” title is biblical, “the heavens and the earth ... [are] reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." (Tarantino movie). Against The Day is meta fiction & meta reality that’s supposed to be superstition & delusion but isn’t. Bilocation, temporal displacement etc. Might be why Pynchon leaves no trace of himself apart from weird fiction & one Inherent Vice movie. Inherent Vice or IV, a clue as to how anyone can write like him.

[@cicolasnage5684]

It took me 7 years... 7 years to “get this film” and mind you I am a major admirer of Anderson’s oeuvre and have been so for 21 years. I was very hyped for this movie when the first trailer was released and thought it was going to be a tru out and out comedy. I was sorely let down and found it ( at first mind you to be a meandering, mumbling mess that made no sense). But as of just recently ( and I do mean just recently.... yesterday in fact) I adjusted the volume settings on my t.v and tuned out all distractions and really truly watched and listened to the movie ( when I watch Anderson I really mainly watch for the visuals, I love his cinematography and camera movements). And boy was I wrong, it is such a beautiful movie , labyrinthine and engaging with this underlying melancholy and sadness. I think a lot of my problem was some of the dialogue was “mumbly” which Inherent Vice is one of those films where you cannot be just a casual viewer and must really pay attention to every single speck of dialogue to put the peices of the jigsaw puzzle like plot together. Underrated gem of a movie.

[@N0va]

If it takes 7 years to like a film, It's probably failing at getting its ideas across. Huge PTA fan but I just watched this last night again and it's pure hogwash lol

[@mohammedashian8094]

@@N0va I’m mean on the surface sure it doesn’t make a lick of sense but considering that’s how Thomas Pynchon writes you could kinda say that it worked it wasn’t really about a plot it was more about the atmosphere of the 60s slowly fading away and transitioning into the 70s

[@N0va]

@@mohammedashian8094 I actually read the book and loved the themes in it. Feels like the ideas come across way better in the novel. It's still a tough read but it makes sense.

[@itsaUSBline]

@@N0va I just finished reading it for the first time the other day, and something that struck me was the way a lot of important context regarding the meaning of certain scenes is conveyed through the prose itself, like the way things in the narration are described, and I feel like that wouldn't necessarily translate very well to film.

[@j.d.snyder4466]

​@@mohammedashian8094 You nailed it!

[@WINFIELD32750]

He needs to do an interview with Zach Galifanakis, that would trip me out

[@MrUndersolo]

winfield pearson I think you mean a movie.

[@leoneranger9348]

I so agree with PTA about actors. It is a noble craft, because that labour can only be sustained by love. It's HARD! No quick wins, no easy outs. I admire the persistence and commitment of my actor friends all the time. ONA, the interview style is conversational, a modern trait, but PTA goes along with it so we end up with a really nice exchange and insight into his film.

[@chriswright4677]

Do we need this huge bar at the bottom of the screen?

[@mind_bahn]

He reminds me a lot of Thom Yorke

[@EisforEvil]

+Sergio Calzada Well he just directed Thom Yorke in "Daydreaming".

[@ferouihamza]

he's a radiohead fan

[@ATCrogerwilco]

Check out "Amana" on Netflix. He just directed that short with yorke

[@BurghartBrothers]

It's Inherent to me that Vice would like Inherent Vice. (hold for applause)

[@EveForbiddenFruit]

Just to let you all know, Meredith Danluck is not a journalist. She's another filmmaker. That's why she's having a discussion with him on film as opposed to asking him traditional questions.

[@bernardopaganelli8411]

Paul if you are reading this THANK YOU, you are the man of my life

[@CorboWill]

Stop complaining about the interviewer's style. If you've watched a lot of PTA interviews you can tell he usually gets annoyed by a lot of the questions. The interviewer here had a more conversational attitude, and it worked to get Paul talking comfortably. I think many of the people commenting wouldn't be saying anything about this if the interviewer was male. Much of vice's audience skews male so I'm not surprised at the hateful comments. But guys you gotta realize if the answers to the interview are good then it's a good interview. I came to read comments about Inherent Vice and PTA, not to write one defending this very fine interview.

[@tonyredgrave3839]

Not a man woman issue

[@crapsack47]

Terrific format

[@FrancoisDressler]

How is it possible for the esteemed interviewee to be more humble than the interviewer? Then again, it could be much worse. Just look at that recent Duncan Jones interview.

[@DrunkenM33rkat]

Can't wait to see this

[@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.]

"The wind brought the desert to the sky to taste it. The horizon brought you the sea and didn't give it to you but let you drink." ,dan' (thirst as I have and starve to life as I hope to do)

[@kwastimus]

Glad to see PTA, but awful interviewer... ask more, talk less, no one cares about the fact that the shots almost made you fall off your chair

[@zekecohen8719]

I'm really glad you brought that up. I completely agree. She seems like one of those pretentious Sundance Q&Aers. "Um, I am really observant, and a really good filmmaker. Thanks, thats all I had to say."

[@DarkAngelEU]

She isn't pretentious, she's obviously wetting her panties over talking with Paul.

[@DarkAngelEU]

***** I'd give her a different pair, true but she does seem a bit like a control freak so maybe they do fit her after all.. aw yeah the word is authority, not pretentious. Pretentious is you telling others what not to wear

[@DarkAngelEU]

***** Sorry about that last part, I must've read your comment wrong. I'm rather tired from work lately

[@IdoF47]

lol, i read it seconds before she said it and it was perfect

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

The trailer was so bad I’m glad I just went into this film cold. I’ve seen it about 10 times now. His films just take you on so many different journeys.

[@pamelasupanick2620]

the movie is truly a linear story with rich characters. It is a story that takes me some place. I feel as though I can ride along and that I want to ride along. It is an honest story, as it depicts human nature truthfully. It has the level of the characters and how they interact, and then it has the level of what is happening in the culture, and it tells both those stories extremely well, simply by depicting human nature honestly.

[@fartboxer22]

Greatest living filmmaker

[@shanemiller6157]

An interviewer should be no-one. Short questions, insightful questions, the more open-ended the better. The point is to get the interviewee talking, it is not to introduce your own interpretations, asinine notions, etc. The interviewee should be going off of minimal goading, stream of consciousness, they should not have to be reacting to the interviewer's interpretations-

[@birdland1752]

Sigismund Schlomo Freud she is terrible.. what do you expect from this channel

[@ThePrimordialChronicles]

Sigismund Schlomo Freud LoL,you guys got trigerred by this chick so badly :p

[@TheIceboxjim]

what do you think the role of criticism is lol? the director of the movie should be asked questions about interpretations of it unless theyre david lynch LOL

[@lazyguy348]

She needs to let him talk more....I'm not watching this interview to hear how much she has to say...

[@kickblue22]

yep.

[@bassplayinben]

this interview would have been better just letting PTA talk

[@thesuperspaz96]

i thought the interviewer asked great questions and had great insight while still letting PTA do his thing

[@danteimage9214]

@@thesuperspaz96 which is rly refreshing cuz a lot of pta interviews have been ruined by the interviewee imo

[@mysteryman040896]

It's nice when a reporter knows what they're talking about

[@RobertSlover]

it is indeed but not this one....

[@dford145]

Love it!

[@supergangsterish1]

man's a genius

[@thegrimyeaper]

Oh my God, she's like super cool and super smart with her glasses and vocal fry oh my god, fierce.

[@HerbieChuckNorris]

Thinking of his plane analogy being a sly way of saying smoke a joint

[@marijavinkele]

really excited for this movie, but since it doesnt come out here until late feb, im gonna have to wait for a week until screeners show up online im really excited for joaquin's performance, since i liked the book so much and i wanna see how he plays doc

[@raptor182cmn]

I wasn't completely sure she was dead until the scene between Doc and Mickey Wolfman. Most importantly it was not the words they were speaking specifically.. it was Eric Roberts eyes when he's asked "Where's Shasta". As soon as I saw Roberts eyes I knew absolutely 100% she was gone. Shasta went out on the boat with the Aryan Brotherhood guy with the swastika on his face, because he came back from the boat ride with Shasta's favorite necklace that she never parts with. Roberts eyes, the necklace, and in retrospect the first phone call between Doc and Bigfoot. Bigfoot yelled sternly about Shasta being gone. SHES GONE. SHES GONE DOC. MOVE ON. I don't know what PTA said to Eric Roberts to get that scene out of him, it was amazing. I haven't really thought of Eric Roberts as a nuanced actor, historically Roberts wheelhouse is more being obnoxious, at little slimy, and then throw in an ugly-cry in there somewhere. Roberts eyes in this movie express tenderness and regret and sadness. Great Job everyone!

[@rusamene]

i love this movie so much

[@VICE]

Meredith Danluck sits down with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson to talk about his new surf noir, an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, _Inherent Vice_. He also shares an exclusive trailer: bit.ly/1yG5d3D

[@DarkAngelEU]

I think Meredith is getting on a lil surf in her noir, if you know what I mean ;)

[@larrynewman5286]

Fire her! Is it too hard to ask real questions?

[@kdhfkjdgkjj]

Larry Newman At the end of the day, maybe it is.

[@tomjones560]

Scott Coveau It's not.

[@Vitojjh]

The interviewer is so cool I mean shitty, fucking, I'd like to grind her glasses with my boot heal while on her face,

[@mobbinhard42]

vice has the best interviewers!! tired of watching interviews where the interviewer is sucking cliche information out of the guest..genuine interest is key

[@jessedampolo]

Alot of these Vice Film interviews seem to be about the interviewer trying to show how smart and "in the know" they are.

[@user82938]

She's a cool lady in LA. That's their deal.

[@eliragsdale7504]

People clicked to view this video to hear PT Anderson talk, not this woman trying to prove how smart she is.

[@joeb5765]

Its embarrassing when you fancy the interviewee so much that you start spounting stuff like: "Acting: I think its the hardest job you can do.".

[@jenkins599]

Such a great movie

[@maulcs]

I have a feeling when he's talking about watching movies "on a plane" or "on the ground" he's talking about, you know, being high...

[@aclementine9928]

+maulCS Ahaaaa! yeah

[@BruceWayne-zj1kw]

He's on record saying he doesn't get high and is not a stoner.

[@tonywords6713]

Bruce Wayne sure used to do a fuck ton of coke though

[@davidlean1060]

@@BruceWayne-zj1kw Not now, but he was back in the day.

[@davidlean1060]

@@tonywords6713 Coke and ecstasy according to his ex. He even admits to the coke in at least one interview. Tarantino was too, hence the ego mania lol PTA always managed to keep that dialed down, at least in interviews.

[@soultrane126]

anyone knows where i can see this movie?? please i need to see it :(

[@jacoporamellapajrin7650]

I'd love to see a Paul Thomas Anderson movie inspired by Infinite Jest.

[@NASkeywest]

Damn. That’s would be hardcore.

[@reinarforeman6518]

He did.... it's called Magnolia 🤷‍♂️

[@smilingface4222]

That part about Hope Harlingen was great

[@jffsmth330]

"America's Funniest Home Videos is big around my house." And that's why PTA is so good- he's down to Earth and not so self-infatuated like Tarantino.

[@ManigoldMultimedia]

This is a "conversation" NOT an interview.

[@shimlaDnB]

i;m drunk and your glasses are to big

[@MrVisde]

I love PTA. But let him speak. Not a great interview. His thoughts kept getting interrupted with clips and the interviewer is not even asking questions 🤣 Just showing how smart she is.

[@DanimationMovies]

This is such a stoner convo I love it

[@Caligula138]

A Pynchon movie?! Holy shit!

[@username4570]

He has such an opposite perspective on watching movies in a plane than anyone I've ever met.

[@OldMoneyAudition09]

An interview with Meredith Danluck as she interprets the film Inherent Vice for the viewers.

[@B_uttcrumbs]

Ask him why he made a movie that is 150 minutes of people whispering to each other.

[@HotNTediousFilms]

i loved the movie and this is a great comment

[@CitizenToxie72]

maybe you should get you're hearing checked? Anyways....it's a homage to PTA's hero, Robert Altman, who was well known for using overlapping and unintelligible dialogue in his films

[@matthewferguson1429]

+citizentoxie52 yeah that's nice and all, but I would still like to hear the dialogue, call me old fashioned.

[@CitizenToxie72]

Matthew Ferguson Maybe just old? I could hear most of the dialogue perfectly fine

[@rivalshawns]

Yeah, and the narrator's voice was very annoying.

[@rascalthecat666]

I think the interviewer did fine? Lol y’all are babies

[@44y4l4]

Love this movie. My favourite character's gotta be Bigfoot Bjornsen

[@giancassa9340]

Man I love PTA

[@chanm01]

Great interview! The only thing that really bothered me was the way they kept pronouncing Pynchon... Yes, I know there is some disagreement out there about how it is really pronounced. I'm just used to hearing it the other way, both in my own head when I read his name, and typically when I hear other people discuss his books.

[@lifeinpictures]

I've never hear of Meredith Danluck before, but, I will never forget her now, She is AWESOME. And PTA is always an intelligent, understated gentleman. I wish he'd shave, but I get it, he's like some "hipster dufis from the Slower east side" a man of the people.... SHAVE, and put on an Armani suit already!!! We will still love and respect you and see your films.

[@freshrr2]

Yea he's always kinda looked/been like that tho. I don't want to see him lookin like Nolan or anything, personally..

[@lifeinpictures]

ssevf Because.

[@lifeinpictures]

freshrr2 Because he is still too young and good looking, he can pull a "Brando" in 15 years if he wants. Ugh, young people are so stupid!! If that comment makes you or anyone else mad it's because your young and Stupid.

[@pollitttyler]

I see people arguing about Nolan in the comments section and I saw someone claim that his films are original and innovative. I just have one thing to say, There will be Blood is about as original and innovative as you can get, it is a true masterwork.

[@kkkkkk-sj3wu]

it's book adaptation dude

[@BeachSkies]

qwe qwe the story called Oil was just a setup for the movie. I saw a whole hourlong interview where PTA and DDL confirm this

[@baronvonpenguin6112]

If I didn't know any better, I could've sworn that was Mark Hamill.

[@vibhumalik3247]

imo, people got so involved in the plot that they didn't realise how funny the movie actually is!

[@louisstevensexperience2984]

Would love to see him and Fincher conversate.

[@AnmolSingh-xy2uu]

Louis Stevens Experience You won't because Paul and David are not on good terms. Paul bad-mouthed Fight Club and also wished death on David .

[@louisstevensexperience2984]

Anmol Singh Yea but Paul has since apologized, so there's that. As for the whole inception of the predicament I think it's just ridiculous on Paul's part for him to say what he said.

[@johnloraditch9562]

Meredith Danluck....she had a movie come out last month...”State like sleep”... according to Wikipedia it grossed $4282.00

[@StanfordCrane]

Excellent director and a great interview, although I kinda felt the Meredith should have dismissed the crew and gone at it, in the parlance of the day. There was some chemistry there.

[@jerin7078]

He always looks like he just woke up 😂

[@Hangglidersinspace]

Paul Thomas Anderson is a famous director.

[@drewpearson4582]

youre infront of possibly the greatest living director... and instead of asking questions, you just talk about yourself and what you liked about the movie... what a let down

[@Matthewboudreau]

this interview is horrible, let PTA speak, don't dilute his conscience with your opinions

[@keywolf23]

Jesus, KZbin is just full of you unsatisfied phlegm. I'm not talking about everyone in general, only referring to a few reoccurring comments that I have seen. This is all too common on these interviews on Vice. I, for one, thought that it was quite a simple, fun interview with a very talented, yet humble director. What more do you people want? Instead on bullhead bashing the interviewer of doing a bad job, remark on what they should be focusing on instead. Thank you for reading, sorry to sound ranty. Have a good one. :)

[@Hangglidersinspace]

Keywolf23, you're really pushing my buttons.

[@WalkingDeadKiller]

Is it wrong to expect a certain standard from any mode of entertainment? Jesus

[@girlspooptoo8567]

keywolf23 Yeah stop talking shit and start laying down some constructive criticism That being said. I think she could have asked more open-ended questions.

[@CorboWill]

If the interviewer was male no one would have said anything

[@crammyhandleman7672]

Acting is the hardest job in the world? You know there are people out there defusing bombs, and performing surgeries, right?

[@cloudsombrero]

shut up batman

[@ULYSSES-31]

+Batman What the fuck would a right-wing billionaire know about hard work.

[@tommymilfiger]

One of PTA's best.

[@TheCinemaMan777]

Am i the only one who walked out loving this movie to death

[@TheCinemaMan777]

Yes :(

[@Caaarrl94]

I think some directors (like scorcese) really don't need fantastic actors to make a great film. I get the feeling that Paul thomas anderson NEEDS an amazing actor like daniel day lewis or joaquin phoenix to make a great film. I feel like he needs an actor who can match him on every level, who he can trust to colaborate, improvise and to create his masterpiece. And when he get's it right and it all comes together (there will be blood) - he is probably the best english language director in the world.

[@nedisahonkey]

Daddy Dana Holy shit om not even an MMA fan and your profile picture is amazing.

[@syntheticrebellion]

Love the glasses. They match her vocal fry perfectly.

[@bandplyrb7892]

Came to watch PTA. Got 15 mins of her talking, 2 mins of film clips & 3 mins of PTA saying “well it’s really not that deep fam”

[@Pantano63]

So he just said his own movie is "kinda boring", why saying that? Wonder why it only got half its budget.

[@sasanjfr]

I'm just 30 minutes into Inherent Vice and god I loved every moment of it.Top notch Dialogues,acting,cinematography,everything.I loved Boogie Nights,The Master but to me Inherent Vice seems the best movie of Paul Thomas Anderson.I can just power of the TV and still this first 30 minutes would be my favorite 2014 movie.Who am I kidding?!Gotta see the rest.Cheers

[@Mr06261984]

pta is a smooth guy

[@TheLivirus]

His hair and clothes tells me she had to wake him up for the interview.