Most People Live Somewhere On The Spectrum

I Did A Comedy With Al Franken About His Character Stuart Smalley, Which Was Really About Alcoholism And Addiction And Codependency. It Had Some Painful Stuff In It. When We Showed It To Focus Groups, Some Of Them Actually Said, "if I Want To See A Dysfunctional Family, I'll Stay Home."

I Think Satire Is A Luxury Of Literate Middle-class People. People Who Are Well Fed And Relatively Secure In Their Beds Can Laugh At Their Troubles. They Can Enjoy Sitcoms. For Those Who Aren't Quite So Lucky, Well, The Irony Might Be Lost On Them.

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, Some Embarrassment, Some Humiliation, Some Pain We've Suffered, Or Some Desire We Have.

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 Got. You Can Have A Pretty Wonderful Artistic Life And Never Leave Chicago.

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