If You're Doing Six Takes, Instead Of

My Only Conclusion About Structure Is That Nothing Works If You Don't Have Interesting Characters And A Good Story To Tell.

My First Few Films Were Institutional Comedies, And You're On Pretty Safe Ground When You're Dealing With An Institution That Vast Numbers Of People Have Experienced: College, Summer Camp, The Military, The Country Club.

You Don't Have To Know Much, Just A Little Bit More Than Everybody Else.

Life Has All Of These Contradictory Feelings And Contradictory Results. People Spend Their Whole Lives Struggling To Get What They Think They Want, And Even If They Get It, They Find That It's Either Not What They Wanted, Or It Comes With So Many Unwanted Consequences. We're Always Shut Off From Pure Joy.

I Feel A Big Obligation To The Audience, Almost In A Moral Sense, To Say Something Useful. If I'm Going To Spend A Year Of My Life On These Things, I Want Something That I Feel That Strongly About.