“I'm just a pretty regular dad.”
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After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
