“Listen, Father,” Jake made another plea for his attention, twirling around from the dilapidated chalkboard. “I will give you another disclaimer that all I have to offer are textbook teachings and emotional intelligence, but I have an observation for you. Maybe you will never find a greater love than the one you shared with the boy who pressed a wet paper towel to your scraped elbow in fourth grade whilst everyone else laughed. I want you to accept that it’s not life or death if you don’t.”
The Dynamic of Zachariah ‘Zach’ Avery and Louis ‘Lou’ Sloccumb — bound together to the end, for better or for worse.
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lancaster Dodd
THE MASTER (2012) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
“When I saw him for the first time in Scent of a Woman, I just knew what true love was. I knew what love at first sight was. It was the strangest feeling sitting in a movie theater and thinking, 'He's for me and I'm for him.'” – Paul Thomas Anderson on seeing Phil for the first time.
Matt Johnson: I'll say that every single piece of work I've ever been involved in I'm always playing the same role, which is, I am always playing the imaginary childhood friend, beckoning the protagonist to return to their childhood. And I mean this is my archetype, and I've played it in all my films, all my movies are about this..."
Kazik Radwanski, Deragh Campbell & Matt Johnson in conversation with Adam Nayman - Matt and Mara (2024) Cinema Guild Press Release
