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Everybody Talks About Wanting To Change Things And Help And Fix, But Ultimately All You Can Do Is Fix Yourself. And That's A Lot. Because If You Can Fix Yourself, It Has A Ripple Effect.

Harry [shearer] And I Had An Idea To Do A Movie About Rock 'n' Roll From The Roadies' Perspective, From Backstage. Then Meat Loaf Came Out With A Movie Called Roadie And We Thought, "oh, We Can't Do That Now." So We Kind Of Discarded The Idea.

You Work With Every Actor Differently. It's Like If You're A Mother, If You Have Children, Some Children Need More Discipline. Other Children You Back Off Of A Little Bit And Let Them Be. It's The Same Way With Actors. Some Actors Need A Lot Of Hand Holding. Other Actors Like To Be Let Be And You Let Them Go. Some Actors Like To Be Nudged Just A Little Bit. Some Actors Don't Mind Line Readings.

I Like Writing Because You Can Make Things Happen And Turn Out The Way They Never Do In Real Life.

This Is About The Daily Ins And Outs Of A Marriage. I Don't Want To Give Away The Ending, But They Are Trying Either To Make The Marriage Work Or Make The Separation Work. Our Job Is To Make That Interesting.