Paul Thomas Anderson, Maya Rudolph Share Rare Kiss After Globes Win

And equally great has been his long relationship with Maya, as well as their four children Pearl, 20, Lucille, 16, Jack, 14, and Minnie, 12.

"It’s pretty Von Trapp," he joked with the LA Times in 2018. "I don’t know that movie that well. But there’s a scene in You Can’t Take It with You where a woman enters and there’s 50 different family members all banging away on different things in different parts of the house. It’s a little like that. This one’s banging on the piano. This one’s banging on the drum. This one’s singing. It’s very chaotic."

But among the chaos, the Inherent Vice director knew almost immediately that Maya would be someone special in his life, with the Saturday Night Live alum recounting how they met.

"He said he saw me in a sketch and said, ‘That’s the girl I’m going to marry,’” Maya told Town & Country in 2024. “But I don’t know. I wasn’t there. Maybe he just told me that to be sweet.”

And as Paul explained, he knew he had to meet her after seeing her name on a piece of paper.

"I don't know if you've had any feeling like this,” he said on SmartLess in 2022, “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."

"Looking back, obviously that kind of impulse, that shining kind of feeling that can happen to any of us if we're open to it, happened,” he continued. “So, I roamed around and then I saw her on television and I saw what she was doing. And I stayed in touch with a few people from the show and I was like, 'My God, this woman's amazing.'"

For a look at more stars enjoying a sweet date night at the 2026 Golden Globes, keep reading.