Paul Thomas Anderson on His Current Writing Process 

I have this funny thing where I drive to another city, sometimes even a small town, and look for their coffee shops to sit and write. Sometimes being in a strange and unknown place gets my creativity flowing. The furthest away I've ever driven just to write was a little over an hour away in San Antonio.

the best part about his films is that they are totally human. Totally shows you the multi faceted lives and the emotions that people go through. His films feel like they are about real people that's why they are so good. His latest film Licorice Pizza looks like an amazing coming of age story. There's nothing like a good story of young love in 1973 in the San Fernando Valley, sounds like a fantastic novel.

This guy just said "I feel like a faker as a writer"....

Profound to hear a legend like PTA say this

Big fan of PT. So is my filmmaker/screenwriter son. One of the great American directors/writers along with the Coen bros.and David Cronenberg. I especially love "The Master" with the late great PS Hoffman.

The film geeks fave, even above Tarantino. There Will Be Blood is a fucking modern masterpiece.

No matter what your field, grunt work will always takes up the majority of your time.

This is how I write now. This is how a functioning adult writes. Unfortunately. I haven't always been a functioning adult, but now its wake up, pen and paper, no computer, write.

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Yep i also need a desk and a routine. Morning person indeed.

link to the interview?

Which podcast is this? Link please

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What's this audio from? Would love to see the full interview

Stephen King says he goes in his writing cabin for 8 hours and bleeds and my method couldn't be any more OPPOSITE... I can sit 2 hours and write nothing, not sitting there bored but actually straining my brain for the words... then other days I write the most brilliant flowing 2 pages with an idea so wildly fukin unique in like 30 mins...

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I usually write in the morning to afternoon. I watch TV and read at night to rest.

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The thumbnail makes him look like an older version of Elijah Wood's creepy character from Sin City haha

wheres this from brah

I never realized how much this guy speaks like DFW.

0:20-ish Tchaikovsky would do that...he said he "couldn't understand" composers who didn't do it like that, who didn't keep regular hours, etc...he said that "the muse never let me down", lol, or something, said something about it not "helping lazy spirits" or something, I forgot what he said, which is what he might have been implying those who didn't have regular hours were, lol...I think Stravinsky also operated like that, holding regular hours, "like a banker", lol, the passage somewhere said...I suspect everyone has their own way of doing things, etc...

True that, G doggies.

I feel less like a loser after hearing this. 😊

What do you mean by "current", is it a new podcast?

The interviewee’s voice sounds like DP30 to me

Can we get this dude out of his own head. I simply do not believe that this man can’t write great shit in the back of a car

i feel like he hasnt made a good film since the master which is a bit sad. ;(