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. (Paul Reiser)
I'm not smart enough to write about something that didn't actually happen to me, ... It's not a plan. But I couldn't write a space movie if you put a gun to my head. (Paul Reiser)
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. (Paul Reiser)
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. (Paul Reiser)
We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people. (Paul Reiser)
Some surprising moments come from the amount of physical comedy in the film, such as a bar fight Falk starts. Was it hard convincing the older actor to do this type of physical stuff The hard thing is stopping him every day from hitting somebody in the head, ... I think he was quite happy to hit me in the groin. (Paul Reiser)
The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering. (Paul Reiser)
What remains the same is the filter of time 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. (Paul Reiser)
But the two of them together, broke my heart. Olympia and Peter, those scenes... When they're kissing in their 20s and then kissing in their 70s, that's what it is. And they had never met five minutes before they shot those scenes. (Paul Reiser)
Some critics also got the film, ... Luckily, everybody is unanimous about Peter. It's a monument for him. His work is so beautiful and subtle. (Paul Reiser)
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. (Paul Reiser)
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. (Paul Reiser)
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. (Paul Reiser)
Guys need a little help in knowing how to care for a kid. It's not that I think Gee, parenting is beneath me. It's just that I wouldn't think of it. (Paul Reiser)
There was nothing you could come up with that would possibly be wrong. (Paul Reiser)