We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

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

Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!

Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

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

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

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.