I Want Studios To Be Financing Director-driven,

I Love Comedies. I Take Comedy Very Seriously As A Form. It's A Serious Form, Involving A Certain Way Of Looking At Life, Specifically The Painful Aspects Of Life. I Get Asked, "how Can You Have Such Failures In Your Films?" Well, What Else Is Life About? There's Some Sense Of Constant Failure In Something. Humor Gives You A Distance From It.

When I'm Introduced As A Two-time Oscar Winner, I'm Happy That A Film Of Mine Has Found An Audience And Some Acclaim Because That Keeps Me In Business. A Filmmaker's Greatest Concern Is The Ability To Make Future Films, So It Helps Keep Me In Business.

I Like Actors Who, When You See Them On Screen, You Sense A Person, Not Just An Actor.

If You Have Your Movies So That Everyone Understands Everything, I Think That's Probably Not A Very Good Movie.

I Make Comedies And I Always Try... I Don't Try But I Allow To Have At Least 5% Of The Jokes Or Have Some Jokes That I Know Will Be Understood By Only About 5% Of The Audience. It's That Guy In The Corner Who Gets It And Laughs. But He Has To Have His Jokes Too. That's Part Of My Audience. Part Of My Audience Is The People Who Will Only Get Certain Things.