‘Pee-wee as Himself’ Director on His Attempts to Gain Paul Reubens’ Trust: ‘There Was a Real Power Struggle Between Us’

variety.com:

Addie Morfoot Contributor In the opening sequence of Matt Wolf’s HBO documentary series “Pee-wee as Himself,” the late artist and performer Paul Reubens mulls over who should have control of a celebrity documentary. “It turns out that you are not really supposed to direct your own documentary,” he tells the camera. “You are not supposed to control your own documentary.

You are supposed to [make] people, many people, alright, everyone but me, feel that as the subject of a documentary that you really don’t have a handle.

Have a take. What’s the word I’m looking for? What is everyone telling me that I don’t have on myself?” “Perspective,” Wolf says off-camera.

Reubens, who originally wanted to direct “Pee-wee as Himself,” disagrees. “You and I are going to be arguing [about that] for a long, long time.