Paul Thomas Anderson

Or what is going to happen here?

What ties do you see turning?

And

It's nice to gauge that stuff.

I love this business and I love movies so much that I have a real interest in seeing it survive.

But more often than not, the volume of my day becomes...

more about film preservation, you know, and film history and trying to keep that stuff alive.

And then just sort of looking to see what's happening and reacting, I suppose, but I don't know.

He's great about all that, but he's amazing about it, one of the best, but he also really runs in his own lane, you know, because he, the person who I collaborate the most with that is Scorsese because he has the film foundation.

He, since the 70s, since the late 70s, early 80s,

went around to every studio in town and said, look, this is when it was really tragic, when the products they had made since their existence were really fading away and dying and weren't being taken care of.

This is just on the cusp of VHS coming around and home entertainment.

So he was really out there at the very beginning with the Film Foundation saying, this is the biggest cultural historical thing that this country has to offer and we have to preserve it and we have to take care of it.

We have to invest money and time and manpower into figuring this out.

So being a part of his Film Foundation has been one of the great honors of my life.

It's great.

I said that to her.

I said, you were one of the first guests.

She's like, no, no, I was.

I said, I think you were.