Paul Thomas Anderson
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I got to go, you know, I had that opportunity to go to Prospect and Talmadge was where he would go to work at ABC.
And, you know, generally...
That was sort of my first taste of being around anything that was show business related, and that was magical to me.
How old were you at that point?
Anywhere between the ages of probably five and, you know, nine.
Um, it seems strange only because it was not, I was proud of him, but no one else could recognize this, the pride, you know, it's such a behind the scenes gig.
There's nothing, there's nothing kind of famous about it.
You know, you don't walk down the street and somebody say like, wow, there he is, you know, or your dad's a baseball player.
Well, you know, there's no recognition to it really.
But that's what he loved about it so much was that he could just kind of have this independent life coyoteing around town and, you know, doing his work and getting paid for it.
making films and making television you know television back then was like you know anybody can do it you know right movies was like this this gold ring like not everybody gets to make movies you know right so you started to experiment with little home movie and it's not an uncommon story right and no it's the same exact story as everybody else but i had the and i had the the
the camaraderie and that which is so crazy now i mean i look around my my life right now and i see my relationship to all the people in dark rooms that i work with engineers and things like this when it's the entire process of making a movie and you're like this is exactly what my dad did you go to a dark room each day and you know try and make something happen and the and the friendships that that he had with those guys i i look back and i think
I was really inspired by it.
I always just thought that's what a friendship was.
He was very close with all these technicians and guys that he worked with.
So those are the people that were around our house.