Paul Thomas Anderson has praised fellow director Barry Jenkins for his use of close-up shots in his films Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk. According to IndieWire, the two filmmakers recently appeared on a episode of the DGA podcast The Director's Cut.

Anderson, the man behind cult classics such as "Magnolia", "There Will be Blood" and "The Master", equated Jenkins with his hero, Jonathan Demme, for his mastery at this crucial element of filmmaking. "I'm very jealous of your close-ups. There's a long line of people who have really tried to do Jonathan Demme close-ups and I try all the time, but I have to say, you got it right better than anybody," he told Jenkins.