Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.