I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

I learned over the years that it's easy to appear smart referencing things that people don't know.

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

The comic edge of Ghostbusters will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility. In the world of ghostbusting, there are certain givens. You're always going to have some new invented technology, some pseudo-science that sounds right because we drop enough familiar terms from physics and engineering, and pseudo-methodology, something that people will think they may have read something about before.

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.

Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

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