I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

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.

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

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.

At a certain point, you have to convince the actors that you've done the right thing. The way I work, if I can't convince them, I've got to move on. I can't coerce them or browbeat them.

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.