“God forbid you maybe get a little political after winning Best Picture for the political movie you made.”

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Other nominees included Sinners, which won four of its record-breaking 16 nominations; Marty Supreme; The Secret Agent; Bugonia; Hamnet; Frankenstein; Sentimental Value; F1; and Train Dreams.

In a separate interview that took place in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting, Paul said, “I don’t think we can bring it back to my film, an action-comedy very far from reality. I’m just trying to sell movie tickets for a fiction movie.”

Oscar-winning director Paul Thomas Anderson playfully scoffs after a reporter asks him how #OneBattleAfterAnother reflects where society is headed:“I thought we were supposed to be partying?”#Oscars pic.twitter.com/hnea7Xm82q

“this is the exhausting thing about PTA, though. you won the awards, man. the campaign is over. God forbid you ever actually discuss the themes of the movie you actually made!” one person tweeted, while another user echoed, “God forbid you maybe get a little political after winning Best Picture for the political movie you made.”

“biggest cop out ever?? dude made the most political movie in the most political times and refused to talk about it????” someone wrote.

“It’s a very dangerous thing, when you start out and want to change the world, but you start to kind of become selfish; you read your own reviews. That was our hero in Perfidia, who becomes an anti-hero. The point of it is to set up a story of [Chase Infinity’s character] Willa, the next generation. What happens when your parents, who are damaged and have handed quite a difficult history to you, how do you manage that? That’s our story. Our story is in Chase, and her reaching, like I talked about in terms of the generational aspect, to try to do better,” he added.