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"I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now."
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"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."

"This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film."
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"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."

"I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse."

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

"In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been."

"When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way."

"It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters."

"I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it."

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