Paul Thomas Anderson

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.

I was getting ready to make Punch Drunk Love with him, and as I was getting ready to leave after my week there, my head was spinning.

I was like, well, that was great, but I don't want to fucking do that again because it was so much.

It was a different pace of work, and I was thrilled to have done it, but that was enough of a taste.

They said there was a piece of paper that somebody had put in my hands or something like that,

and I looked at it, and the information was on it that there was a new cast member starting next week, and her name was Maya Rudolph.

And I can remember seeing her name on that piece of paper.

I don't know if you've had any feeling like this, but you see something for the first time and you realize that my life has just changed.

I don't know how, I don't know why, I don't know what just happened.

And so, but you quickly kind of move on.

You just, whatever, you have something else to do.