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.

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.

You can't love somebody into a state of mental health. A lot of people get into serious relationships thinking they're going to heal someone with their love and attention, but it doesn't usually work out that way.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

I learned over the years that it's easy to appear smart referencing things that people don't know.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.