I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

If you're bored, you're boring.

At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.

An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

A symbolic victory is still a victory.

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than from anything else.

Then with the losers let it sympathize, For nothing can seem foul to those that win.