I Can't Imagine A Successful Comedy Movie

As Much As I Liked Acting For Its Playfulness And The Reward Of Hearing Big Laughs Wash Over You On A Stage, I Always Felt I Should Do Something That I Could Control.

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 Say, "are You Kidding? I Can't Say These Words." So It's All About Perception.

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 Doing All Your Preparation: You're Already Visualizing Everything, You're Imagining How The Lines Are Going To Be Read, You See The Blocking In Your Head, And You Know The Rhythm And The Pacing.

I Never Read Playboy Before I Started Working There And Stopped Reading It The Day I Quit.

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. We Recorded The Laughs In The Theater.