PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON celebrates his 56th birthday today. He made his directorial debut aged 25 and has a career littered with acclaimed movies. Here he is talking about casting Boogie Nights and making home movies as a kid.
Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.
In this clip, Paul Thomas Anderson critiques film education for prioritising classics like Battleship Potemkin while dismissing blockbusters. He argues that aspiring filmmakers could learn just as much—if not more—by starting with films like Terminator 2 and working backward.