Words matter. These are the best Paul Reiser Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
She kind of reminds one of Helen. There’s something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.
I’d never directed before and this movie’s too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it’s me.
But you get past that and realize you have to let go of what you think you want. There’ll be plenty of time for that later. Right now, go and be with that baby. Just play with this beautiful little boy.
We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.
But I really felt that, something about the lights going down, and the sense of community. I saw this movie at one festival, and there were 1700 people.
But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it’s also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that’s the thing I still can’t get over.
I’d distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.
It’s not like some movies where you’re following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It’s these guys. We’re not cutting back to anybody else.
The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.
They’re not the sharpest people – babies. So, you must be everything to them.
Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great.
In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That’s not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It’s a different point in both our lives.
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.
We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.
There’s something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.
He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.
I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They’d be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we’d think: Oh, please Lord, don’t make us go through that.
In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.
