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Once I let the story brew, I was able to sit down and write it in a couple of weeks, ... I always envisioned Peter in the role, because there are few actors like him. I wrote pages and pages of stuff for Peter to do, knowing we wouldn't have time for it. I wrote these long scenes with Peter ordering food in restaurants and things like that, because I know what he can do with material once he has his way with it. - Paul Reiser Quotes

Once I let the story brew, I was able to sit down and write it in a couple of weeks, ... I always envisioned Peter in the role, because there are few actors like him. I wrote pages and pages of stuff for Peter to do, knowing we wouldn't have time for it. I wrote these long scenes with Peter ordering food in restaurants and things like that, because I know what he can do with material once he has his way with it.

Once I let the story brew, I was able to sit down and write it in a couple of weeks, ... I always envisioned Peter in the role, because there are few actors like him. I wrote pages and pages of stuff for Peter to do, knowing we wouldn't have time for it. I wrote these long scenes with Peter ordering food in restaurants and things like that, because I know what he can do with material once he has his way with it. - Paul Reiser Quotes

Once I let the story brew, I was able to sit down and write it in a couple of weeks, ... I always envisioned Peter in the role, because there are few actors like him. I wrote pages and pages of stuff for Peter to do, knowing we wouldn't have time for it. I wrote these long scenes with Peter ordering food in restaurants and things like that, because I know what he can do with material once he has his way with it.

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists. - Paul Reiser Quotes

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

The studios didn't know how they would sell it, ... It's not sexy, it has some older actors. But the strange thing is, I'm seeing people in their 20s and 30s walking out of the theaters laughing and talking about the film. And older people want to hug their kids after they see the movie. - Paul Reiser Quotes

The studios didn't know how they would sell it, ... It's not sexy, it has some older actors. But the strange thing is, I'm seeing people in their 20s and 30s walking out of the theaters laughing and talking about the film. And older people want to hug their kids after they see the movie.

Acting And Actors

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. - Paul Reiser Quotes

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.

I'm feeling very vindicated that, when I see the audiences laughing and being moved, we were right. This movie was worth making, - Paul Reiser Quotes

I'm feeling very vindicated that, when I see the audiences laughing and being moved, we were right. This movie was worth making,

And he's like a laser beam. Somebody says, 'We'll probably shoot in 5 minutes.' - Paul Reiser Quotes

And he's like a laser beam. Somebody says, 'We'll probably shoot in 5 minutes.'

When I did, it was very casual, but I never told him about the project because at best I knew he'd say, 'Great, let me read it' and I'd have to say, 'It's not written yet.' So I didn't say anything, - Paul Reiser Quotes

When I did, it was very casual, but I never told him about the project because at best I knew he'd say, 'Great, let me read it' and I'd have to say, 'It's not written yet.' So I didn't say anything,

This is not the most right I've ever been. - Paul Reiser Quotes

This is not the most right I've ever been.

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The Thing About My Folks - Paul Reiser Quotes

The Thing About My Folks

Once in a while you get a moment of clarity -- an inspiration -- and they don't come that frequently, - Paul Reiser Quotes

Once in a while you get a moment of clarity -- an inspiration -- and they don't come that frequently,

It felt like such a right idea that it didn't bother me to put it away, because I knew it would be ready when it's ready, ... When I had kids, I realized I understood my parents better. I had more compassion for them and I look at my kids and realize, 'Oh, man. This is just the same cycle all over again.' - Paul Reiser Quotes

It felt like such a right idea that it didn't bother me to put it away, because I knew it would be ready when it's ready, ... When I had kids, I realized I understood my parents better. I had more compassion for them and I look at my kids and realize, 'Oh, man. This is just the same cycle all over again.'

I started writing this before I had kids, - Paul Reiser Quotes

I started writing this before I had kids,

There was nothing you could come up with that would possibly be wrong. - Paul Reiser Quotes

There was nothing you could come up with that would possibly be wrong.

[Did working with Peter match up to his expectations?] He's everything you think he's going to be, ... He's the funny, brilliant, cranky, crabby Peter Falk. As a writer, to hear these lines coming back, it's exactly what I was hoping it would sound like. You really do sound like Peter Falk! As an actor, it's like playtime, because he's so fast and facile and good. - Paul Reiser Quotes

[Did working with Peter match up to his expectations?] He's everything you think he's going to be, ... He's the funny, brilliant, cranky, crabby Peter Falk. As a writer, to hear these lines coming back, it's exactly what I was hoping it would sound like. You really do sound like Peter Falk! As an actor, it's like playtime, because he's so fast and facile and good.

We're five years into the lean journey, and it is really starting to reveal big opportunities for us. - Paul Reiser Quotes

We're five years into the lean journey, and it is really starting to reveal big opportunities for us.

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father, - Paul Reiser Quotes

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Peter Falk and my father are very much the same. - Paul Reiser Quotes

Peter Falk and my father are very much the same.

[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 Quotes

[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.

They'll think it's true, - Paul Reiser Quotes

They'll think it's true,

The day after I finished writing it, I literally called him the next morning and asked him if he'd please read this, - Paul Reiser Quotes

The day after I finished writing it, I literally called him the next morning and asked him if he'd please read this,

It felt very natural right off the bat. It was really tailor-made for him and mine was tailor-made for me, so it was easy to jump into. - Paul Reiser Quotes

It felt very natural right off the bat. It was really tailor-made for him and mine was tailor-made for me, so it was easy to jump into.

[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 Quotes

[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.

Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother, - Paul Reiser Quotes

Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother,

If the powers that be see there is a bigger market out there, it will make it easier for the next time around. - Paul Reiser Quotes

If the powers that be see there is a bigger market out there, it will make it easier for the next time around.

The Things About My Folks, - Paul Reiser Quotes

The Things About My Folks,

I got the idea 20 years ago, but have to clarify to people that I wasn't writing that slowly, - Paul Reiser Quotes

I got the idea 20 years ago, but have to clarify to people that I wasn't writing that slowly,

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. - Paul Reiser Quotes

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.

Ideas

There's a certain similarity between me and him, and his generation and my father's generation, so to think of us together doing the film together wasn't such a big jump, ... I could hear Peter say the kind of things my father said. He talks like my father a little bit anyway. - Paul Reiser Quotes

There's a certain similarity between me and him, and his generation and my father's generation, so to think of us together doing the film together wasn't such a big jump, ... I could hear Peter say the kind of things my father said. He talks like my father a little bit anyway.

He is an undervalued treasure of American cinema, ... What I'm finding as we're traveling around is that everybody loves this guy. He's been so good for so long. I see it in people's faces. Women want to hug him and guys want to give him a pat on the back. I think that's one of the reasons the movie starts off so well. As soon as you see his mug on the screen, people are at ease. They go, 'I know this guy. This is comfortable.' - Paul Reiser Quotes

He is an undervalued treasure of American cinema, ... What I'm finding as we're traveling around is that everybody loves this guy. He's been so good for so long. I see it in people's faces. Women want to hug him and guys want to give him a pat on the back. I think that's one of the reasons the movie starts off so well. As soon as you see his mug on the screen, people are at ease. They go, 'I know this guy. This is comfortable.'

Columbo. - Paul Reiser Quotes

Bob, the guy who did 'Big Fat Greek Wedding,' immediately saw what everybody else chose to not see. This is not a little art film. Bob said, 'This is a big commercial hit.' He realized there's something about the movie that really works. It can play everywhere. It's odd when you see the things that are most personal can end up becoming the most universal. - Paul Reiser Quotes

Bob, the guy who did 'Big Fat Greek Wedding,' immediately saw what everybody else chose to not see. This is not a little art film. Bob said, 'This is a big commercial hit.' He realized there's something about the movie that really works. It can play everywhere. It's odd when you see the things that are most personal can end up becoming the most universal.

Thanks for letting me be on the show with you, - Paul Reiser Quotes

Thanks for letting me be on the show with you,

People say to me, 'You made both these movies?' - Paul Reiser Quotes

People say to me, 'You made both these movies?'

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 Quotes

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.

Any issues my parents went through are very prominent in the movie, even though they enjoyed a happy relationship, ... The story actually started for me when my mom told me a few years ago that because she got a job, she never made it to the World's Fair in New York, and that's a missed opportunity that always stayed with her. - Paul Reiser Quotes

Any issues my parents went through are very prominent in the movie, even though they enjoyed a happy relationship, ... The story actually started for me when my mom told me a few years ago that because she got a job, she never made it to the World's Fair in New York, and that's a missed opportunity that always stayed with her.

I was having the best time of my life, - Paul Reiser Quotes

I was having the best time of my life,

One time I met him backstage to see him after a performance of a play he was in, ... He grabbed me by the shoulders. - Paul Reiser Quotes

One time I met him backstage to see him after a performance of a play he was in, ... He grabbed me by the shoulders.

He said, 'Listen, you are a very good writer.' - Paul Reiser Quotes

He said, 'Listen, you are a very good writer.'

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 Quotes

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.

This is only Day No. 2 [in their publicity tour] and we're already tired of each other, - Paul Reiser Quotes

This is only Day No. 2 [in their publicity tour] and we're already tired of each other,

I was visiting my parents, and I walked into a room where my father was watching a Peter Falk movie on TV, ... I think it was 'The Cheap Detective.' Anyway, my father was belly-laughing, and he never really did that. I thought, 'If Peter Falk can make my dad laugh, then I'm going to come up with a movie in which Peter Falk plays my father.' - Paul Reiser Quotes

I was visiting my parents, and I walked into a room where my father was watching a Peter Falk movie on TV, ... I think it was 'The Cheap Detective.' Anyway, my father was belly-laughing, and he never really did that. I thought, 'If Peter Falk can make my dad laugh, then I'm going to come up with a movie in which Peter Falk plays my father.'

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