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.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

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.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.

As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws.

This worship of Humanity, with its rituals of Liberty and Equality, always struck me as like being a revival of the ancient cults, in which animals were gods or the gods bore the heads of animals.

I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.

Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out.”“Well, I’m ready for a long patch of boredom.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

According to a new poll, nearly six out of 10 Republicans want Mitt Romney to run for president. So do 10 out of 10 Democrats.