The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.

Ali is looking forward to having a good swim. The pressure is off once you make it to the state.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.