Occupation: Comedian Birth: March 30, 1957
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….
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.
There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't..
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….
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 r….
Why do you think people close their eyes when they kiss? Think about it. In the real world, if you saw someone an-inch-and-a-half away, coming at you….
It was trying to make my tennis game look mildly respectable, which I found you don't even really need to practice if you have a really good editor. ….
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 gr….
In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."]..
You know what? The obvious is obvious for a reason..
The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering..
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 pare….
The most challenging part of being a dad is trying to postpone the moment when they realize you don't know anything. I love any sentence that begins ….
When you get busy, the priorities change. In your twenties, you hang out with who you were in school with. Then you grow up and you hang out with the….
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 Hea….
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 r….
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 an….
When you realize you would consider not having a child just so you could take an occasional snooze and be available to see Batman Retires the same we….
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 differ….
If a tree falls on your head in a forest and no one hears it, it still hurts..
It turns out most of the conclusions that I've come to in life have equally valid contradictions. I think it's true you need to make a plan, set a go….