Everyone has experienced laughing at a funeral, and not even inappropriately. It could be a response to a moment of absurdity or some fond memory. We….

I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that..

Life has all of these contradictory feelings and contradictory results. People spend their whole lives struggling to get what they think they want, a….

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work..

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

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

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit..

You can't love somebody into a state of mental health..

Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything..

It doesn't take any longer to improvise 10 takes than it takes to shoot 10 takes of the same thing. It turns out to be just as responsible from a bus….

I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer who is also going to direct, you're ….

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the ….

A friend of mine is trying to do a documentary where he brings Jewish and Arab comedians to occupied territories in Israel. He wants to do shows as a….

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If….

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I….

My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people ….

I'm sure that the liability for doing a tracheotomy would be tremendous. You make one mistake, and it's over. Most doctors won't even do it..

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 y….

It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about crimin….

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by cir….

Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression..