 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis. |
| 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. |
| We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people. |
| The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering. |
| 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. |
| This is not the most right I've ever been. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption. |
| 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. |
| Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that. |
| We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile. |
| 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 had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names. |
