Interview: "Naked Talent"

Interview With Paul Thomas Anderson
By Jeff Simon, Buffalo News - October 26th, 1997


With Boogie Nights -- A movie about the porn industry - Paul Thomas Anderson shows off his startling skills as a director

Sometime after the millennium, we'll all know who the great emergent young American filmmaker of the sensation-mongering '90s was. All we can see now are two major candidates: 34-year-old Quentin Tarantino, the brilliant but detestably influential director of "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction"; and 27-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson, whose bold, sweet and extraordinary film "Boogie Nights" opens Friday.