 Aimee Mann (qv)s music inspired Paul Thomas Anderson (qv) to  write the script and at least one lyric (and possibly more) from an  Aimee Mann song was lifted and used as dialogue. In the song  "Deathly" the lyric goes: "Now that Ive met you / Would you object  to / Never seeing / Each other again". In the film,  Melora Walters (qv)s character says "Now that Ive met you, would  you object to never seeing me again?"