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...they're also really harder than what I did with this. A comic film is easy for me. I'm not saying that they're all good films, but they come easy. So I don't trust it when I find myself showing up at work and seeing Tracy Ullman and enjoying it - I go home at night and think, "Well, gee. There's something I wrong here. I shouldn't be enjoying myself. This won't be of any value. It's too pleasurable...
...This is the third time you've worked with Tracy Ullman - fans will only remember Bullets Over Broadway as the other collaboration, but you had to cut her out of Everyone Says I Love You. You bring her back here as the lead - does her comedy naturally work with your style...
...Well, years ago, we both shared the same agent, Sam Cohen, and he kept badgering me to look at this girl, Tracy Ullman. I wasn't working at the time, I was between films and I kept saying, "I have no interest in looking right now, but when I'm casting..." And he kept sending me tapes and letters and I put it off and put it off and then one day I was home and I put the tape on. I was just amazed and I called in friends and they were like, "Sure, she's on television...
...awkward surgery on the movie. It cut together very nicely without her. I've always been looking for some way to use her but when I wrote this, I didn't have her in mind. I had Elaine May in mind for the other role, but not Tracy Ullman. And then I was talking to Juliet Taylor about the casting and her name came up and I said, "My God, she'd be perfect." She'd get the laughs, she's a solid actress - and then I panicked. I worried I wouldn't get her - but we were lucky...
...idea. Dreamworks puts together a promotional package and in a big meeting they ask me, "What are you willing to do? Would you do Letterman or Leno..." And I'm like, "I don't want to do television." Then they say, "Well Hugh Grant is doing things and Tracy Ullman's doing things so you have to do something. Then they said, "Why don't we do a few colleges" and I said, "Sure, if it's helpful for the film." They'll show the movie, I'll answer some question from the students - it should...