Over the years, there certainly have been plenty of ideas that I've had and given up on, but for this one, the only thing that was standing in its way was me doing it -- I just had to write it, ... And then if it didn't happen, it didn't happen. But I didn't want it to be for lack of effort on my part, so I had hunch that it would be a good story and that we would work well together. And it certainly worked out that way.
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People often ask me, What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood In a word Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources--all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.
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It is not important to know what facts are true, ... The relationships portrayed are real. My mother did have a job interview with my father. She worked alongside him for awhile, they dated, were married and had a family. She never did get to the World's Fair.
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I got the idea 20 years ago, but have to clarify to people that I wasn't writing that slowly,
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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.
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