When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.

When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.

No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.

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.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.