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

Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.

When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is that you're going to make a career in show business.

The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

Groundhog Day was pretty clean. It may have to do with some puritanical feeling that comedy is a forbidden pleasure in a certain way. They make you laugh, and laughter is somehow an inferior emotion to tragedy.

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