I Had A Lot Of Fun Working

At A Certain Point, You Have To Convince The Actors That You've Done The Right Thing. The Way I Work, If I Can't Convince Them, I've Got To Move On. I Can't Coerce Them Or Browbeat Them.

I Always Claim That The Writer Has Done 90 Percent Of The Director's Work.

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 Laugh, And Laughter Is Somehow An Inferior Emotion To Tragedy.

When You're Young And You First See The Extent And Depth Of The World's Hypocrisy, It's Fun To Go After It. But By The Time You're Sixty, It's So Commonplace. What's The Point In Ridiculing People Anymore? Their Existence Itself Is A Sort Of Sick Joke.

I've Never Taken A Script To The Stage Or To Principal Photography And Said, "this Is Perfect. This Is As Good As It Can Possibly Be." It's Not Shakespeare, You Know; You Know It Can Probably Be Better.