Jason Bateman

You really have.

I got that after a while, after a while.

But then the success was so – one after the other after the other.

Yeah.

Was there a strategic consideration when Punch Drunk Love came about?

Or was that more of a – did Paul Thomas Anderson come to you and only in hindsight do you see it as a great strategic sort of balancing thing, offsetting the goofiness?

Yeah.

Or did you think ahead and kind of seek out something that might counterbalance all that?

Just stay away from my house.

Wow.

No way.

And so he comes back after his drive, and you got a bunch of notes, right?

It's all marked up.

He's incredible, though.

I mean, his taste is just unreal.

I love that he's a huge comedy nerd, too, apparently.

And that he can see the amount of acting it takes for you to pull off believably what you do is, you know, right in line with his, with his tastes and his abilities.

And I just, I'm such a big fan of his.

And then the Safdie brothers, you know, I mean, Uncut Gems is just absolutely stunning.

I don't mean to jump ahead, but.