 As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making. |
| I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke. |
| Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie. |
| I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit. |
| I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers. |
| If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma. |
| A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you. |
| The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House. |
| You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy. |
| My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules. |
| Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films. |
| There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great. |
| I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work. |
| No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form. |
| I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful. |
| Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny. |
| We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater. |
| With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie. |
| My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club. |
| I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about. |
