Paul Reiser Father Quotations

Peter Falk and my father are very much the same.

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.'

It changed my perspective. I understood what the father was thinking in making sure that he was providing for his family. I understood what my own father was thinking. It's a better movie now because I waited.

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.

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