When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.

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.

I do come from a strong family.

A lot of people have used the frog splash over the years. Every one else that used it is a four star frog splash, when RVD did it, it became a five star frog splash.

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.

You're working yourself till late at night, and sleeping crazy with deadlines - you're doing it for a reason.

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.