If you're a fan of "Stella," "Wet Hot American Summer," or any kind of absurdist comedy today, you probably are familiar with David Wain. Last year Wain's overlooked comedy inspired by those ten very famous commandements came and went from theaters quite quickly. Now thanks to the miracle of DVD, you've got another shot to see "The Ten," the only film to date to bring together Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder, AND Jessica Alba.

When I called up Wain on his cell recently he asked me quite politely to call back on a landline, only to immediately pretend to be asleep. Read for yourself.

MTV: Hi David?

David Wain: [Sleepily] Yeah? Who is this?

MTV: It's Josh Horowitz.

DW: I just woke up. What time is it?

MTV: Okay, you're scaring me.

DW: Thank you. This is actually David's assistant. I'm just standing in for him.

MTV: You just employ people who sound like you?

DW: [Laughs.] They sound like me and know everything I know.

MTV: So I understand you wrote "The Ten" pretty quickly?

DW: We wrote it as an experiment to see what would happen if we locked ourselves in a room for a week and didn’t leave without a first draft of something. That's how we wrote the first draft. It was a lot of coffee and a lot of "come on come come, we can do this!" We outlined it in the first day and wrote like 25 pages a day after that.

MTV: Did you have the concept before you got in there?

DW: It's an idea that I had some time before that but had never gone beyond the basic idea.

MTV: How closely does the film resemble that first draft?

DW: Seven or eight of the stories were in that first draft. A lot of it was in the first draft.

MTV: What was the toughest commandment to crack?

DW: Covet thy neighbor's goods and wife were sort of similar. And adultery and coveting thy neighbor's wife was similar. We had written a whole other one for adultery and we ended up replacing it with a much shorter one that tied it to the Paul Rudd storyline.

MTV: What was the storyline you replaced?

DW: The cut storyline was about a Nichols and May type comedy team who do a sketch about being the only ones left after an atomic bomb hits and then coincidentally an atomic bomb hits the theater while they're doing it. Then we pull out and reveal that all of that was a movie. And then an actual atomic bomb hits the movie set. It was complicated and probably not that funny.

MTV: You are the only man I know of who has directed Winona Ryder in a sex scene with a puppet. Did that take arm twisting?

DW: Shockingly none. She signed onto the film without having read it I think. She was a big fan of "Wet Hot American Summer" and got in touch with us.

MTV: Did she get to select the puppet?

DW: That was a whole thing. We were trying to find the right puppet and a lot of these puppet makers or owners of famous puppets wouldn’t allow us to use their puppets. So we had to have someone create a special one for the film. When she kissed the puppet for the first time no one had thought to make sure that it was ok. And it turned out that it had a horrible tasting chemical shellac. She was completely grossed out.