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

It doesn't take any longer to improvise 10 takes than it takes to shoot 10 takes of the same thing. It turns out to be just as responsible from a business point of view as anything else.

Most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.

I have a great respect for the moviegoing experience. It's such a unique thing. You're not getting up and walking around the house or flipping channels during the dull parts. You're in a dark space, and the movie fills most of your field of vision. You're surrounded by sound, and the colors are deeply saturated, and faces are fifteen feet high. If it's done well, you're really going to feel some big emotions or have some big belly laughs.

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

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