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Happiness is the quiet lull between problems.
You know what? The obvious is obvious for a reason.
There's something very refreshing about being on stage.
He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.
Get a good dog. We have not picked up food in the kitchen in 15 years.
The most used appliance in our house is my 10-year-old son Leon's Xbox.
They don't see that whole pattern. Worm/death. Worm/death. I would catch on.
There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.
If a tree falls on your head in a forest and no one hears it, it still hurts.
They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.
Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.
Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.
Two or three times a week, I drive by the houses of numbers 78-100 just to rub it in.
In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].
She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.
Every time I see Peter Falk in the movie I think that would be great. We'd be fun together
Every time I see Peter Falk in the movie I think that would be great. We'd be fun together.
Our date-nightrule is no talking about the kids. That lasts about to the end of the driveway.
The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.
Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother.
Once in a while you get a moment of clarity - an inspiration - and they don't come that frequently.
Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.
We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.
We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.
As you get older you realize your parents don't look so dumb - and that you're not as smart as you thought you were.
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
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.
The jewel in the baby product crown is the stroller. And if in America you are what you drive, then in Parentland, you are what you push.
A new child in the house is a huge tourist attraction. It's like Disneyland, except there the lines are longer and no one brings casseroles.
I used to walk into a party and scan the room for attractive women. Now I look for women to hold my baby so I can eat potato salad sitting down.
I'm not smart enough to write about something that didn't actually happen to me. But I couldn't write a space movie if you put a gun to my head.
I can't get past the fact that food is coming out of my wife's breasts. What was once essentially an entertainment center has now become a juice bar.
You know, the fact that every morning you get a script in your mailbox, that's going to stop. All these little pedestrian, mundane things. And the cash.
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.
A friend told me to listen to my heart. Another friend told me to listen to my gut. Maybe I need an autopsy, because right now my colon is kind of iffy.
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
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.
And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on
Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.
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.
And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.
Parents often give middle names just so that later, when they're yelling at the kid, they can drag it out. Henry David Thoreau, you come in here this instant!
There was a period where our child's birth was getting really close, and we still had nothing. We were dangerously close to calling him Untitled Baby Project.
New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters.
And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently
And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.
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
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.
The consumer mentality - we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come in a book form? Does it come in a capsule? How about a soup?