The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is that you have to contribute subs….

I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it..

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. ….

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama..

Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists..

When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same business, and we all speak the same com….

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

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought..

Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful..

I loved writing and performing, but the idea of doing it for a living seemed so remote. But I eventually let it devolve to the point where it was the….

I did a comedy with Al Franken about his character Stuart Smalley, which was really about alcoholism and addiction and codependency. It had some pain….

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules..

The comic edge of Ghostbusters will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility. In the world of ghos….

If people work together, if they can keep a cooperative spirit and use their ingenuity and balance it all with good humor and good will, then there's….

When I've written for Bill Murray - I've written six films for him - people would read it and say, "Oh, that's so perfectly Bill." He'd read it and s….

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie..

I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in these little bombshell lines that would get me….

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

You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else..

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a wee….

I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet….