Episode 565 - Paul Thomas Anderson

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2015

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Director Paul Thomas Anderson joins Marc in the garage for a thorough discussion of each and every one of Paul's films, including his latest, Inherent Vice. Paul explains his creative process and spills some amazing on-set stories about Boogie Nights, Magnolia, The Master and more.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.6	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck in here is, what the fuck
0:13.9	nicks, what the fuck adelix, I am Mark Marren, this is WTF.
0:18.4	Welcome.
0:19.4	It's time to get back to work today.
0:20.6	I hope you're, I hope you're rested.
0:23.1	You didn't annihilate yourself like a child, a new year's, you 40 to 50 year old people
0:28.7	who might be still trying to bounce back here on January 5th from the mistakes you made
0:35.2	on the eve of the first, perhaps not mistakes, but man, it doesn't get any easier, does it,
0:40.2	does not get any fucking easier.
0:42.0	Today is a pretty fucking big day people.
0:45.8	Today on the show I'm going to talk to Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of many a great
0:50.0	film, his current film, inherent vice, is playing in theaters and it expands even more theaters
0:56.4	across this large country of ours on Friday.
0:59.9	I saw inherent vice and then I got a screener of it because I'm a member of several guilds
1:05.4	that votes for awards, get a lot of screeners so I'm happy I had the opportunity to watch
1:10.4	it again and I will watch it again and again.
1:14.3	Not unlike any of Paul Thomas Anderson's movies, I need to watch him at least three times
1:19.4	just to get it in my head, this expanse of his vision.
1:27.5	I get angry at his movie sometimes because I watch him and I'm like, oh fuck, now I'm going
1:33.5	to have to see that again almost immediately and then probably another time after that
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