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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he’d ever been when I came out.
Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents’ music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
From time to time, I’ll look back through the personal journals I’ve scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.
I’m gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I’ll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.
I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn’t anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.
My dad still calls me and makes sure I’m taking my vitamins.
My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you’re a kid, you want to be just like your dad.
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.
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 Peter Falk and me.
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.