I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other.

I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

There's something very edgy about Bill Murray out there improvising.

I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. "Not only can he cross-country ski, but he's a terrific marksman as well." I want people to say, "You mean that writer performed a tracheotomy?" That's right, I do everything.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

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