Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.

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

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.

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.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.