I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

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.

You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do.

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

I have to go out there and show scouts and GMs and coaches just what I can do: Run as fast as I can and try to show them I have great hands and good technique where I can be on the line blocking.

Design exists to serve some purpose.

People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.