In a recent interview with The Los Angeles Times, Paul Thomas Anderson said "The Master," one of the very best movies I have seen this decade, will always be his "most beloved" movie.
“I think that won’t change,” Anderson said. “The amount of emotion I put into it and they put into it — they being Phil [Seymour Hoffman], Joaquin [Phoenix] and Amy [Adams]. I’m not sure it’s entirely successful. But that’s fine with me. It feels right. It feels unique to me.
“I really hope it will be something people can revisit and enjoy in a way that equals my pride in it,” he continued. “And pride can be a dangerous thing, and I’m not being very quiet about my pride in saying all this. But I just feel really proud of it. And of course, there’s a particular sentimentality attached to it for a number of personal reasons. It’s all wrapped up.”
When it will come the time to make a list of the best movies of the decade you can rest assured Paul Thomas Anderson's masterful film will be included on my own list. It's an incredible achievement, a film that cannot be described in words. I also understand what he means by "it's not entirely successful," I think the film couldn't fully wrap up its thematic ambiguity properly in its last 5 or so minutes, I mean, how do you conclude the eccentric brilliance of the first 95% of this film. The film should have ended with Joaquin just riding away on that motorcycle. Those are minor quibbles.
PTA also sent a shout-out in the interview to Adam Sandler and his unadorned love for "Big Daddy."
“I love ‘Big Daddy,'” Anderson said. “‘Big Daddy’ had Sensitive Sandler; there’s a scene in it where he’s screaming at his father over the telephone that I used to rewind over and over. That’s when I really thought, ‘I have to find this person. I have to work with this person.'”