Petty & the Heartbreakers celebrate 30 years

AP: Peter Bogdanovich is doing a documentary on the Heartbreakers. Has he been following you around with cameras?

Petty: We’ve given him a lot more access than we’ve ever given anyone. He does follow us around with cameras, interviewing us, talking to lots of people. He’s also filming some concerts. He’s spent a great deal of time going through footage of the last 30 years. There’s just a truckload of film that’s been shot in 30 years, as you can imagine. So we have high hopes for the movie.

AP: Does being under such close scrutiny ever get uncomfortable?

Petty: (Laughs.) It’s a little scary sometimes. I really admire Peter Bogdanovich, I always have and just the idea that he’s doing this is pretty outstanding to me. But I also trust him. I told him early on, I’m just going to give you total carte blanche here and I’m going to trust that you’ll make the movie you want, because what I don’t want is for me to make the movie. I don’t want it from my point of view ... sometimes we’re miked all day and it’s a little nerve-racking, but I’m really glad that somebody of that caliber wants to get this story down, because it is quite a story, and I think it deserves to be archived.

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