When Alec Baldwin kissed the old man onstage [in "Prelude to a Kiss"], the audience in the theater went, "Awww." When he kissed him in the film, you would have thought I brought a Rwandan child out and cut his head off. [Laughs] The studio said: Let's make it a hug instead. And I said: Well, then we'd have to call it "Prelude to a Hug." I didn't come to the film with the adventuresome spirit that you need to take a play and rethink it. If I had the foresight, I would have made a more playful picture.
