A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

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

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.