The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.

Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

Hamas cannot stand free media.

It's usually better to focus on partying and let the other stuff take care of itself.

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.

I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say.

When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.

An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.