I have a million questions. Um and ideas floating around in my head.
One is that, uh it's nice to see a film where people
actually ask for help
people who are really kind of a mess, but ask for help
or are a mess.
Um
And has a redemptive quality and yet it's a tough film
because it's a very tough film.
Do you end up with a film that you set out to be in to make
while you're not the director? I agree. Yes, absolutely.
I was definitely, I'm definitely a
part of the film. I wanted to be a part of,
I saw it and I loved it. So what, what jumps out and play
this year, the most,
everything,
everything about that movie, I think that movie is beyond the call of duty.
I think he,
I can't say enough about it. I was just
from every aspect of the film I think was superlative, you know, and,
and, and new
and uh
original,
I get the idea uh every time I see his work and he, and he hasn't made that many films
that there's somebody wise beyond their ears.
Sure. That doesn't have to live it, to know how to write it. Well, I think he has lived
it in a way and, uh,
because I think you, I think people live things relative to their life.
You know what I mean? And, and
just because they literally haven't lived, it doesn't mean they haven't.
And, uh,
and that, I think there are people that are very empathetic people, you know, that,
that take on other people's woes and other people's feelings.
And he's written a couple of characters in this film like that.
And um
and I think Paul is very affected by life.
Like, I think like a lot of the actors are too, very sensitive group of people. And uh I
think that's why we're all in it. And
so I think, you know, hopefully did a good job that way. It's an odd question.
But do you ever get nervous acting
all the time? I try to say my name to the camera. And then
two minutes ago, I was like Philip La,
you know, I, yeah, my palms are just wet and like
acting is very difficult. It is.
So I gotta work pretty hard to be good at it. Or else I suck.
And how do you work through the nervous part
just by doing it?
No, no, you just, you do work. If you do your work, you do what you do, you know,
I don't want to get into that. That's
acting talk. No, but it's, I find it kind of interesting
when, when you're doing a scene, for instance, with Tom Cruise in this film
and, you know, it's working is that,
is that a flying experience and out of the body experience when you do,
you get lost in the moment,
I think everybody's experienced the mo that moment where it's, you,
you're creatively kind of effortless.
You know, it's,
if it's uh your thoughts are just coming very easy to you and the
answers are coming very easy and you kind of know what to do instinctively.
Um
And you know, you, and you know, your, your concentration is, is at a peak,
you know,
and when you're like that people are just focused on
you and you're focused on you and everyone's watching and,
and it's good.
That's, yeah, that's a great feeling. That's what you hopefully will get.
That's what you're striving for.
When an audience in Dallas, we don't pay 950 yet. We still pay seven or 650.
Is it great? You
pay 650 or so, I think you should go again. We pay 450.
We do. It's great.
Go before
not seven. Don't tell me. It's seven in Dallas. It's not, it's 650 I think. Oh,
no, no, I'm going down there. It's at
least eight bucks in Dallas. When
no, it's not when people pay their 650 to see Magnolia in Dallas.
What kind of, it's an odd question. But what kind of things.
Do you want them to think and feel when they come out
first? I want to do. Why are they living in Dallas?
That's right.
Um One on to the field when they come out. Um
III, I don't know what I want them to feel, they're gonna feel what they want to do.
I want them to hopefully,
hopefully understand, hopefully understand that this is,
this film is a special film that,
that is gonna stand time. I think, I just think it's one of those films. So
I just, I just hope they realize what they've just watched,
you know, that it's nothing has been like it before and it's, it's a, it's a new film
and
it is new.
It's really great,
nice work, good work. Thank you very much. Really nice work.