Paul Thomas Anderson

That sounds about right.

Don't make Jason cry.

It stuck with me where I think about it.

That's what I think about, Sean, when I'm driving down the road.

Every once in a while, I'll think about something pops into your head.

You think, God, that was really, really, really, really funny.

Sean loves the dirt, Paul.

That is very true, is that I asked Leo to be in Boogie Nights, and he spent many, many months agonizing and debating about it.

Months?

And ultimately, what I didn't realize, or kind of came to realize about halfway into that, this sort of long decision-making process, is that he had a choice to make, which was to either do Titanic or to do Boogie Nights, and he chose to do Titanic, which, of course, in the long run, catapulted him to this massive worldwide fame.

But on the other hand, I think, possibly, I think it was...

We laugh about it now, but he regrets missing the experience and doing it.

But yeah, that's true.

Well, I did like short treatments and shot lists and things like that.

But really, funny enough, that when I was 16, just about to turn 17, I wrote a short film that was called The Dirk Diggler Story.

That was what Boogie Nights became.

And it was like a 20, it was like a 23 or 24 page script.

But I did it

in the format that was popular at the time.

And all I had was this sort of bad video camera.