"When I started this picture, Adam Shankman [the director] said, 'I am going to make you a promise, Vin: I am going to make them laugh, and I am going to make 'em cry. And in order to do that, you have to be committed to what, you know, whatever character type you're playing for this story to work'."

-Vin Diesel on the creative process behind The Pacifier.