Inherent Vice director Paul Thomas Anderson claims that life is "much better" since having kids.
Anderson’s partner, Maya Rudolph, plays a small but important role in his new film, Inherent Vice.
The couple have four children, aged from one to nine. “My life is much better now that I have kids, “ says the acclaimed director.
“I don’t have any desire to make ‘kids’ movies’. But it definitely changes your work habits. Also, it’s been really hot and dry where I live recently, to the point that everyone is really scared about drought.
Speaking to The Observer, the director declares: “you know, it’s not raining in California any more – for obvious reasons. . . .I was playing the other day with the kids and it was 102 degrees. And I got nervous in a way that I have never been nervous before. Like, what the f*** are we doing? You know, what are we leaving them? And it made me deeply, deeply sad in a way that was new.
“So yes, everything’s different. But everything’s also better. Somebody said that if you’re making something and you have a kid, you realise that your best work is done. And it actually frees you up to be a little bit looser in your work.
"You know that your masterpiece has already been made – nothing’s going to touch that. It doesn’t mean you try any less, or you’re any less invested, but you’re just working in a different level because you’ve already done your best work.”
Inherent Vice opens in Irish cinemas on January 30.
