Paul Thomas Anderson
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Podcast Appearances
30 theaters in this country where it would look great and sound great and the rest are fucking filth i'm sorry but it's like you know it's and that's the sad truth of it is that i can understand why everybody says like oh piss off i'm staying at home you know what why you want me to pay for babysitter and pay for parking and come in and look at this shit and look at it on a fucking screen that that you guys haven't even you know i don't know it's hard to defend at a certain point
I think that's kind of bullshit too because the reason why is when all these theaters were opening up again, you have these huge, gigantic 25 plexes and stuff like that, and everybody was crying.
It was like, well, what did you fucking think was going to happen?
Any of the great theaters, let's say, in Los Angeles or New York that are playing specialty programming, they're packed with people.
They're people that you know are going to come out and turn out for this thing.
And because there's one theater with 400 seats that they can fill and they can do two shows a day or three shows a day and people will still turn up.
Everyone's scratching their head.
No one's coming back for the movies.
It's like, well, they're not coming back to these weird, horrible pyramids that we've built.
I slip in and out of it because I love... Part of loving movies as much as I do, the history of movies and my obsession with this work, which has been with me forever and is what I've made of my life, it does involve being fascinated with the...
the way that it moves, you know, like we were talking about before with Singing in the Rain, you know, that's a fantastic story, the way that what happened to the movie business when it changed from talkies to... So I constantly try to keep an eye on that or try to understand it or have enough friends in this business from over the years that I can call up and ask, you know, what does this mean?
What does this mean when this film is doing well?