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"No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form."
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"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."

"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true."

"I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best."

"I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about."

"I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying."

"We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in."

"I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it."
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"I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers."

"First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?"

"We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing."

"There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great."

"The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House."

"I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about."

"My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club."

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