Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in these little bombshell lines that would get me some attention and a laugh without really helping the scene.

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

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

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

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.

It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which is difficult for a director.