Paul Thomas Anderson
speaker
471 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 16 Mar
Paul Thomas Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
So I realized it wasn't gonna look good.
It wasn't gonna look like a movie.
So I wrote this thing that was about 23 pages long.
And it was interviews with people looking back at the life of this guy, Dirk Diggler.
Oh, A Current Affair was a very popular show at that time.
I don't know if you remember that.
But they would always have these insanely overdramatic, you know, and it was so preposterous that it was so trying to find a way into the story that I thought was interesting, which is the pornography that had surrounded me my whole life, living where I lived.
Like, it was so obvious what was around me.
And then writing it in this format was like a doable thing.
Like, okay, I can get somebody and do an interview with them, you know?
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