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Floyd Gondoli. Most movies these days are 9. John Lesher. Paul Thomas Andersons Agent. Its the best script Ive ever read. Vibrant. Full of balls and cum. Roll over for more info Todd Williams. Production Assistant, Boogie Nights. Paul knew how to write to an audience who reads scripts. You have the title page, then you open up to the second page and its like, This movie will be shot with anamorphic lenses. Paul Thomas Anderson 2. Writer Director. Greetings andor salutations, people Welcome to io9s occasionally weekly mail column, where I solve the mysteries of the world of nerddom to you, both fictional. Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss. I saw the Valley the way David Lean saw the desert in Lawrence of Arabia. John Lesher. Paul Thomas Andersons Agent. Paul visualized the whole movie. He had everything, all the camera moves, the lighting. Paul Thomas Anderson. Writer Director. I felt it should maybe resemble my personal experience of watching a porno film incredibly funny one second, turns me on the next, then incredibly depressing and so on, up and down. Todd Williams. Production Assistant, Boogie Nights. The whole porn is cool thing hadnt happened yet. John Lesher. Paul Thomas Andersons Agent. I didnt send the script to that many people because there werent that many people that would make a movie like that. I kept it under wraps. Mark Graziano. Postproduction Supervisor. We were going through a big boom at New Line. We had had a big successful year between 1. Se. 7en and Dumb Dumber and The Mask, and we had started expanding and doing more artsy stuff. Eight Crazy Nights Movie Photo Cover' title='Eight Crazy Nights Movie Photo Cover' />Eight Crazy Nights Movie Photo TriviaSharon Waxman. Author, Rebels on the Backlot. Mike De Luca was this hotshot executive at New Line. Vxh36kiw/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Eight Crazy Nights Movie Photo Amazon' title='Eight Crazy Nights Movie Photo Amazon' />He was a bad boy. He loved that life and he lived that life and the fast cars and the blow jobs and the pretty girls and all of that stuff. Mike championed Boogie Nights and championed Paul. Michael De Luca. President of Production, New Line Cinema. I was talking with John Lesher about the movie Kids. I passed when he brought it to New Line then I saw the movie and was really impressed. Just as a joke, I said to him, Dont let me pass on something this cool again, and later, under those auspices, John said, Remember when you said dont let you pass on something coolJohn Lesher. Paul Thomas Andersons Agent. We met, had a beer, and I gave him the script. I said, Listen, Im not gonna give the script to anyone else, but you gotta read it tonight. You cant submit it for coverage. This is not something that you give to your story department. He called me the next day and said, I love it, I want to do it. Michael Lynne. Co Founder, New Line Cinema. We hadnt committed to doing the film yet. Mike De Luca had told Bob Shaye and I that this young guy hed met had an intriguing script. Boogie Nights began as a teenage boys wet dream. Nearly a decade before its 1997 release, it was a fantasy to chase. The year was 1988. The boy was a precocious. Could Oprah Winfrey Run For President Will Grace Reboot Debuts But Did It Deliver The Goods Sex And The City 3 Is Officially Not HappeningHe told us that right before Sundance. Michael De Luca. President of Production, New Line Cinema. My boss, Bob Shaye, was a big proponent of provocative art films. I knew he would dig it. He liked stuff on the edge. Michael Lynne. Co Founder, New Line Cinema. So Bob and I got to Sundance. The evening we arrived, we were meeting some people at a restaurant and a young guy introduces himself to us as Paul Thomas Anderson. Hes holding the largest script I ever saw in my life. It looked like a telephone book. It was easier for us to take chances with new people than compete for the already established top five directors in town. We tried to zig when the majors zagged. Michael De Luca. Bob Shaye. Co founder, New Line Cinema. Paul was bundled up in wool caps and mittens. He was pretty quiet, actually. I didnt get his passive aggressive side at that time, just the passive. John Lesher. Paul Thomas Andersons Agent. It was a typical Bob meeting a very obnoxious meeting. Theyre both lawyers asking a million questions, wondering why theyre making the movie. Michael Lynne. Co Founder, New Line Cinema. We were interested but not wildly interested. We hadnt read the script. We had a series of people we were meeting at different places in Park City that evening and we were bar hopping. Everywhere we went, there was Paul, following us. Bob Shaye. Co founder, New Line Cinema. Download Garfield Gets Real Movies there. It was a great subject and had interesting characters, but it was ridiculously long and the way it was characterized with Dirks 1. How were we actually gonna depict that Michael De Luca. President of Production, New Line Cinema. It was easier for us to take chances with new people than compete for the already established top five directors in town. We tried to zig when the majors zagged. Bob Shaye. Co founder, New Line Cinema. We had to seek out things that were unique or unusual or that other people and other producers werent drawn to. Michael De Luca. President of Production, New Line Cinema. Before we made the deal on the project, we agreed on a few things The movie had to be under three hours and it had to be R rated, not NC 1. And Paul didnt have final cut and he didnt have control over the marketing or the distribution plan. We agreed to take our chances with each other. Paul Thomas Anderson. Writer Director. Its true that I saw my first porno at 9 years old. My dad was the first guy on the block to have a VCR. The Opening of Misty Beethoven. Very, very, very well made one of the best. It terrified me at the time, really scared the piss out of me. A blow job was a blow job, but the sex stuff was a bit confusing. I was trying to figure out Is that in her butt or what Philip Seymour Hoffman 6. Scotty J. Paul grew up in the Valley, where a lot of those films were being made. John Lesher. Paul Thomas Andersons Agent. He was this really wonderful, smart, amazing kid. I went to his little apartment, where he was living with his girlfriend and a dog, and he showed me The Dirk Diggler Story, a short film he had done in high school. Paul Thomas Anderson. Writer Director. I was so influenced by Spinal Tap that it was in my brain, so it was like, Lets play it as a documentary. Id seen this piece on A Current Affair on adult film star Shauna Grant, which was the clichd but true story of a girl from Iowa who comes to Hollywood on the bus, looking for her dreams. Michael Stein. Dirk Diggler, The Dirk Diggler Story. Paul and I met through our girlfriends. He was going out with a girl I was going out with her sister. I drove him home from our girlfriends house and were just making each other laugh, and a couple weeks after hes like, I have an idea. Paul Thomas Anderson. Writer Director. I remember sitting on my bed, I was 1. I was watching TV, and I swear to God, it just was like bang Dirk Diggler. Hey, thats a good porno name, and I wrote it on a little index card. And I still have the index card. Michael Stein. Dirk Diggler, The Dirk Diggler Story. It was a very dirty room. There was a lot of film stuff everywhere and two VCRs hooked up to one TV. Paul had this Academy Award poster right in front of his bed. I was like, wow, every night before you go to sleep, you memorize all the Academy Awardwinning films. Michael Stein and Rusty Schwimmer in The Dirk Diggler Story. Photo You. Tube. Rusty Schwimmer. Candy Kane, The Dirk Diggler Story. I was working at Ed Debevics a 5. Beverly Hills. Paul came in with a childhood friend, Kelly Conway, who is Tim Conways daughter. I thought Paul was about 1. He was 1. 7. Michael Stein. Dirk Diggler, The Dirk Diggler Story. Our girlfriends dad, Peter Guber,9 was this big producer, so they thought it was great like, Now youre doing a film, youre trying to do something with your lives. Rusty Schwimmer. Candy Kane, The Dirk Diggler Story. Paul said, Youre an actress I was like, Yeah, were all actors here. He said, Ive got this script I want you to read. I read it and thought, How can this 1. Michael Stein. Dirk Diggler, The Dirk Diggler Story. The comedy came from Dirk so badly wanting to be on top of everything and having no idea how oblivious he was. 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