You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

If you're doing six takes, instead of doing six variations on the same words, why not just throw out the words and make them up as you go along, if you're comfortable with it? It gives the movies a slightly rangier feeling, and more of an accidental feel, but it also makes them edgier.

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.

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