john waters. first love, and there's me. this guy, johnny yinglingure in all of our lives. >> well, my name is john yingling, and this is spiritist pizza, its been here since 1971. this town is everything to me. provincetown is a really special place where people can be themselves. we all did drugs, acted young and crazy, and tony was, he was probably a little wilder than some and not as wild as others. but he was always the guy who i always liked. >> and you let me sleep on top of the walk-in. >> i remember that. >> i cannot tell you how frequently i dream about the pizza. i'm walking down commercial street, and i'm sort of dimly aware that spiritist has moved and there's a sense of dislocation and a loss as i stumble around this sort of provincetown dreamscape of 40 years ago. i was still here and living in hope. unbelievable. >> many of the old places in p-town are gone. but the lobster pot is still going strong, all these years later. and still has what i want and need. the essentials. my friends worked in the kitchen here, starting the tradition

. >> that is john yingling, still owns and operates a pizzeria called spiritus pizza in provincetown. he was a central figure in my life and now a respected elder statesman in provincetown. >> can you see progress year-by-year? in terms of how you present the material that you see? >> somebody asked me, what other documentarians are influential to you? and the answer is none. we spend a lot of time looking at dramatic films, foreign films, classic films. particular eye towards storytelling, timeline, editing. we use those as reference points and inspiration. for instance, steven soderbergh's "the limey." a really interesting structure as far as its timeline. it keeps falling back on itself. we are always looking to use a device like that. >> so you watch that and say, you have to see this. it is really interesting. or does somebody just watch that and incorporate it? >> i will be watching wong kar wai, and i meet with my crew, and say i want that look. the lush camera angles, the movements. we are all film nerds. it gets us excited. they go out and watch wong kar wai films, and we tal