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 great.

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.

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.

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.

Every time I see Peter Falk in the movie I think that would be great. We'd be fun together.

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

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.

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.

They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

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

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.