I have no trouble selling out—I’m a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.

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

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

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

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

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.

When you're young and you first see the extent and depth of the world's hypocrisy, it's fun to go after it. But by the time you're sixty, it's so commonplace. What's the point in ridiculing people anymore? Their existence itself is a sort of sick joke.