I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes Bush look like a fool, you feel like you've done something significant. But really, what have you actually done? Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.