Interview: Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonathan Demme

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
1 min readApr 4, 2020

A conversation between the two directors from the 2013 Austin Film Festival.

Jonathan Demme and Paul Thomas Anderson [Photo: Austin Film Festival]

A deep dive into the video vault of “On Story.” Produced in association with the Austin Film Festival and KLRU-TV, the series is a must for anybody interested in screenwriting, movies, and/or TV.

This video features a conversation between two notable filmmakers: Jonathan Demme, whose movie credits include Something Wild, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, and Rachel Getting Married, and Paul Thomas Anderson, whose movie credits include Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, and The Master.

There are dozens of videos in the “On Story” archives which you can access here.

Twitter: @austinfilmfest, @AFFOnStory, @klru.

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