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.

Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else.

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

I've never taken a script to the stage or to principal photography and said, "This is perfect. This is as good as it can possibly be." It's not Shakespeare, you know; you know it can probably be better.