Paul Thomas Anderson

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.

You have to eat it, you know.

But looking back, I obviously...

that impulse whatever that kind of that shining kind of feeling that that can happen to any of us if we're open to it happened yeah and so i um i roamed around and then i i saw her um on television and i saw what she was doing and i had stayed in touch with a few people from the show and my god this this woman's amazing and i on on my way back through um i stopped to watch and we met

at the show and then i had to go on to london and i to work on punch drunk love and then i got to london i said well something didn't feel right and i just came back to new york wow and i came back and then uh that's fucking beautiful man yeah for real so you come back to new york because you felt drawn back to her and called her and said let's go out

I think of it all the time.

We're, we're, we're one in the same, Sean.

June 26th.

Are you guys?

June 26th, 1970.

June 26th, 1970.