Paul Thomas Anderson

went around to every studio in town and said, look, this is when it was really tragic, when the products they had made since their existence were really fading away and dying and weren't being taken care of.

This is just on the cusp of VHS coming around and home entertainment.

So he was really out there at the very beginning with the Film Foundation saying, this is the biggest cultural historical thing that this country has to offer and we have to preserve it and we have to take care of it.

We have to invest money and time and manpower into figuring this out.

So being a part of his Film Foundation has been one of the great honors of my life.

It's great.

I said that to her.

I said, you were one of the first guests.

She's like, no, no, I was.

I said, I think you were.

She was like one of the first two or three, right?

It was just like that.

He wants to hurt me, I know.

You know, it's funny.

I'm not sure what it is.

I guess it's like anything like, you know, I don't know, there's like, you know, actors that wanted to be rock stars or, you know, musicians wanted to be actors.

Like people making serious films really just like, the one thing they really loved was comedies, you know.

Like I had made these films.

I thought that they were funny, but people were saying like, you know, it's not.

Dude, hilarious.