Occupation: Film Director Birth: October 16, 1947
I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer ….
Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsc….
I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff j….
Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And curre….
We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficul….
I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off..
I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there'….
Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I….
Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that..
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early 70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was politica….
I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold ….
Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this bus….
The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we ….
It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew th….
Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it wou….
It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take….
I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, a….
I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city aud….
Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitl….
There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was al….
We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important..