Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, ….

It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which i….

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect..

I realized that my righteous indignation was a form of entertainment for me. I loved getting pissed off at injustice. I didn't do anything about it, ….

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our fam….

When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is ….

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples wh….

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form..

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression..

Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've ….

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport..

Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it..

Groundhog Day was pretty clean. It may have to do with some puritanical feeling that comedy is a forbidden pleasure in a certain way. They make you l….

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke..

Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing ….

Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions..

Analyze This is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they c….

As an actor, you're completely at the mercy of other people. You basically go begging for the opportunity to work. As a writer, at least nobody can t….

I've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience..

I've got to find a compromise where I don't feel compromised. I've got to find something equally good that they don't feel uncomfortable with. At a c….

Most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important..