First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

I've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience.

We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

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

My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.