Seduce And Destroy with Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie & Paul Thomas Anderson

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Topics covered include: hot mics, shooting in airports pre-9/11, "movie star grapes," Josh seeing Sandler in Punch Drunk Love at age 18, writing a script that feels like there is no script at all, His Royal Highness Darius Khondji, the firecracker scene in Boogie Nights, the feeling when it all works artistically, post-filmmaking blues, losing the Ziegfeld theater in NYC, and why it just makes sense to ship a precious gem inside of a fish.

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0:00.0	Hey and welcome back to the A24 podcast. We're so excited to share this
0:07.3	conversation between the Safi brothers and Paul Thomas Anderson, three of the
0:11.0	greatest filmmakers of their respective generations.
0:13.0	Listing to them talk about their craft and share stories is possibly the best and cheapest film education around.
0:18.0	We hope you enjoy it.
0:20.0	Take your family to see uncut gems over the holiday and we'll see you next year.
0:24.8	And now Josh Benny and PTA.
0:27.6	You're listening to the A24 podcast.
0:30.2	Yes, you're listening.
0:31.2	Um...
0:32.2	You got the nice mic.
0:34.0	Yeah, I don't know if this is the nice one.
0:36.0	Okay. We did this, we did this job once where it was like a PSA for turtles.
0:40.0	Yeah.
0:41.0	And we were shooting with some people and they were wearing wire mics.
0:44.8	radio mics. I was mixing and I was running boom and all but I heard the wire mics and there was a whole
0:49.5	side conversation between the two of them about the turtle and the intricate kind of
0:55.2	bend and sway of the turtle's neck and it got very sexual yes and then one of
1:01.6	them reminded the other like we are wearing microphones.
1:04.0	They just look over right at me like this. Dead stare like I didn't hear a thing.
1:11.0	It's probably better in that scenario
1:13.4	to actually confront him, be like, yeah,
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