In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.

The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another. It's not that they all get along, or that there aren't bad people or people we make fun of. But at the core, there's a kind of sweetness.

I think if people want to see pure sex in the movie, they have the Internet and the extraordinary things are available.