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was talking to a friend and she said that her daughters watch T e Pink Panther and quote it in the house. I think the fi lms are growing in awareness.


In the book, you joked about being No. 3 on the call sheet of It’s Complicated. Is that when you sensed it was time to step aside from movies? No, no, it was just a funny moment. T e truth is that I’m so much more inter- ested in having a family at home than going to Atlanta for three or four months and shooting a movie. I also have a TV show, and we’re starting season three in January. My plate is full.


its core is dramatic. You’re just shaving off the funny part.


We have to talk a bit about Only Murders. Surely the reception must have exceeded your expectations. I knew we liked the idea of delivering stories with the premise of podcasters trying to solve a murder. But they got the right people to do


“There’s always a competitive edge in everything you do. But you have to remember that there’s always going to be somebody better than you, and there’s room for everybody.”


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Is there a fi lm from the past 15 years that made you think, I wish I would have done that?


I thought the Quentin Tarantino fi lm Once Upon a Time in Hollywood [from 2019] was fabulous. Brad Pitt was so funny in it. T ere’s a line at the end of the movie when he’s high and he has all the Charles Manson murderers in his friend’s house. And he goes, “Oh, this is real.”


Steve Martin and Quentin Tarantino would have been a killer combination! Well, I did work with David Mamet in T e Spanish Prisoner in 1997. It was a drama, and I played a villain.


Did you like that change of pace? You have to mix it up a little or else you’re doing the same thing over and over and your style becomes predictable. I wanted to do it because comedy at


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it with Marty and Selena. I’ve always said that in order to make fi ve good movies, you have to make 40 because you never know if something is going to be a hit and people are going to like it. I remember when Father of the Bride came out, it kept beating every other movie at the box offi ce. And I thought, Oh, this month it’s my turn.


Does it hurt when it’s not your turn? Not anymore. T ere’s always a competitive edge in everything you do. But you have to remember that there’s always going to be somebody better than you, and there’s room for everybody. I’m also a musician, and I work with a lot of bands. I always say, “Don’t be jealous of other bands. You’re just going to eat yourself up and waste time and it will get you nowhere. So be inclusive and say, ‘Great job.’ ” It takes a while to learn to not take it all so seriously.


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