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Let's Be Honest, You And I Have Probably Seen A Whole Lot Of Family Films - You Have To Do Something Special. Jim Strouse Has The Ability To Write This Hairpin Turn Between Emotion And Comedy That Is Very Real. In Real Life, You Don't Have Time To Prepare For The Bad Stuff And You Don't Have Time To Prepare For The Good Stuff, It Just Sort Of Happens.

People Have A Sense Of Humor, Even If It's Not A Good One, And Everybody Has Stakes.

The One-liner Of This Movie [ The Hollars], You've Probably Heard Before: 'a Guy Goes Home To His Family And Finds Out About Himself.

To Be An Actor And A Director, I Actually Felt It Helped Me Tremendously To Be In The Scenes Of The Hollars, Because As You Can See, They're Very Intimate, Very Intense Scenes. You Don't Want To Break The Actor's Character And You Don't Want To Break Their Momentum, So As The Actor, I Tried Not To Call Cut As Much As I Could, And Almost Make It Feel Like A Play, Just Set This Environment Where These Amazing Actors Could Do What They Wanted To Do.

James Cagney As A Baby Is Not My Ideal Thing.