It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which is difficult for a director.

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

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

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

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.

If you're doing six takes, instead of doing six variations on the same words, why not just throw out the words and make them up as you go along, if you're comfortable with it? It gives the movies a slightly rangier feeling, and more of an accidental feel, but it also makes them edgier.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.