Paul Thomas Anderson

And I think he was smart enough or had done it enough to know, like, I'm not going in the booth.

I'm going to be with you guys.

You know, it's going to be exactly the same.

I'm not, you know...

He also liked to smoke while he was doing it, too.

Huh?

No, that sounds fantastic to me.

And it doesn't seem too far from accurate.

Even, you know, he did obsess over that kind of stuff.

And I probably passed a little bit of it on to me.

Yeah, very.

Oh, that's nice.

I got to go, you know, I had that opportunity to go to Prospect and Talmadge was where he would go to work at ABC.

And, you know, generally...

That was sort of my first taste of being around anything that was show business related, and that was magical to me.

How old were you at that point?

Anywhere between the ages of probably five and, you know, nine.

75 to 79.

Um, it seems strange only because it was not, I was proud of him, but no one else could recognize this, the pride, you know, it's such a behind the scenes gig.

There's nothing, there's nothing kind of famous about it.