I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

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.

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.

I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

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

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.