On Story: 414 Jonathan Demme and Paul Thomas Anderson: A Conversation

[@milesdorst7120]

Love how you can tell that PTA has so much reverence and respect for Demme, he never interrupts or interjects, he just listens intently

[@cutieboychase]

Uh yeah, duh.

[@Jayla60]

Silence of the Lambs gripped me from first frame to last. One of the most terrifying movies I've seen... I watched it in an empty theater on a rainy afternoon.

[@ExxylcrothEagle]

I was in that theatre too, Janet !!! you smelled AMAZING !!!

[@KnightEnterprises]

Then therapists are like: “so that’s when your emotional problems began?” I’m kidding. That’s funny tho. Like when therapists ask: “when do you think it all went wrong for you?” You show then Artax‘a death in A Neverending Story. Hahaha. Do they ask those questions? I imagine I would respond w a film reference like those. Haha.

[@mendozaartstudiollc1354]

I csn listen to great directors discuss film for hours. Thanks for sharing.

[@suttree3233]

R.I.P what a master

[@Man_Ray78]

this is gold

[@MrDrawingboard1]

Rest In Peace Jonathan Demme!

[@GandharKulkarni2000]

So much swag on one stage

[@tatehildyard5332]

Gandhar Kulkarni I know. Femme seems so down to earth and cool.

[@jayceewriter7826]

Thanking the Gods we have so much of him which remains. Demme we are all gutted. Massive respect for this staggering unique filmmaker. RIP Jonathan Demme

[@pedrobakale7180]

PTA has always expressed great admiration for Jonathan Demme, it is clear in the conversation who is the teacher and who is the student.

[@JamieJobb]

Like Bergman, Hitchcock and Fuller, Demme knew this regarding intense head-on close ups: "... you show exactly what the character sees, you shoot it exactly from their point of view."

[@Cold780]

Watching this after paul's interview with linklater in honoring Jonathan's memory, its really sad.

[@cinnamon4605]

Melvin and Howard is beautiful!

[@libertyfilm4096]

A conversation is when two people talk…, nos just one !!!

[@ChollieD]

I need to say a good word for "Beloved", which is hugely under-appreciated. One of Demme's very best, and an adaptation of a novel that should have been just about impossible to film. I have a sincere question: do other people not like it, or do they dismiss it because Demme's a white guy who dared to make a movie about black American characters?

[@adamzanzie]

I think it's a great film as well, but its dismissal has little to do with Demme being a white guy and more to do with most audiences not having read the book and not being able to understand the film very well. Currently working on a big video essay defense of it.

[@theexpresidents]

It's no _Putney Swope._

[@Sakib7003]

What is the music at the end?

[@libertyfilm4096]

He talks to the end?

[@keepplayingnice]

Did this interview take place in 2015?

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

It's certainly crazy that he thought Meg Ryan was more talented than Jodie Foster 😂

[@libertyfilm4096]

He can do his autobiksogrsphy😮

[@frank2778]

Yadda Yadda. There are four story arcs: up, down, up down, down up.

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

I can't believe he thought Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan and Laura Dern were superior than Jodie Freaking Foster

[@theboss297]

@Michael Murphy still is