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

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

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

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

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

With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.