Paul Thomas Anderson

You make really funny shit.

Thank you.

Yeah, because everything that I watched or in my daily kind of existence was just like I just devoured that stuff.

And I met Maya when she started SNL.

What was that meeting?

How did you guys meet?

Do you find that funny people are generally pretty serious when they're at home?

Yes.

Uh-huh.

Nothing funny about it.

I really do want to know.

We... At SNL, right?

At SNL.

That was at the time with Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon.

And I had met Molly Shannon.

And she said, you know, you could come and you can see how we do this.

And at the time I was writing Punch Drunk Love and I was obsessed with that time that Sandler had been there, so I accepted that offer to come and look and then watch, you know, behind the scenes.

And then Molly said, well, you know, you can direct a short.

So I directed a short with her in it and just got to kind of witness the inner workings of this whole thing.

And at that time, I was also getting to know Sandler and asking him about his time there.