Paul Thomas Anderson thinks movies are "at their best" when they're two hours long

Licorice Pizza
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The ideal movie, accordi🐭ng to Paul Thomas Anderson? One that's🌄 two hours long. 

The topic came up in a recent interview when the director was asked about working on the small screen – despite having nine feature films and numerous music videos for artists including Fiona Apple, Radio𝓀head, and Haim, he has never helmed a TV show.

. "As a writer, I think we have fantasies when you struggle with editing material down: ‘I have so much material, perhaps this is a limited series.’ When in fact, no, it’s not, you just need to edit down your story. I mean, a film should preferably be two hours. That’s when they’re at their best. I’ve missed that mark multiple times, but that’s really the goal."

His next movie, Li♑corice Pizza, is 130 minutes long (the same length as his last movie, 2017's Phantom Thread). Th🐲e '70s-set coming of age flick stars Cooper Hoffman (the son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, a frequent collaborator of Anderson's), Alana Haim, and Bradley Cooper. 

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Magnolia is Anderson's longest movie at 188 minutes, while 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Punch-Drunk Love comes in at the shortest at 95 minutes – along with his debut feature, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hard Eight, these are the only movies of Anderson's that fall under the two-ho☂ur ⛎mark. 

While we wait for Licorice Pizza to arrive on the big screen on December 25 in the US and January 7 in the UK, check out our list of the other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming movies to get excited about in 2021 and beyond.

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