Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.