I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.

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

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

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.

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

I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.

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.

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.

Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.

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

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.

It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else.

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.

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

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

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.

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.

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.

Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.

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.

Theyre not the sharpest people babies. So you must be everything to them.

Once in a while you get a moment of clarity an inspiration and they dont come that frequently.

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

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.

It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.