I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.

We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.

Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

Further up and further in!

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

You are what you think about.

We can only accept friendship from others to the degree that we give it to ourselves.

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.