My First Few Films Were Institutional Comedies,

I Have No Trouble Selling Out—i’m A Benevolent Hack, In A Certain Way—but I Want To Pander For Something I Believe In.

Some People Have A Fear Of Rejecting All The Security That Comes With Family, Church And State. They Become Fundamentalists.

Well, For Me, It's The Relationship Between Comedy And Life - That's The Edge I Live On, And Maybe It's My Protection Against Looking At The Tragedy Of It All. It's Seeing Life In Balance. Comedy And Tragedy Co-exist. You Can't Have One Without The Other. I'm Of The School That Anything Can Be Funny, If Seen From A Comedic Point Of View.

The First Comedy Screenplay That I Wrote Was Animal House And I Always Thought I Could And Should Be A Director But No One Was About To Give Me That Opportunity On Animal House.

My Characters Aren't Losers. They're Rebels. They Win By Their Refusal To Play By Everyone Else's Rules.