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"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater."
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"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."
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"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department."
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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."
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"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can."
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"You can only do so much theatre."
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"I think there is no world without theatre."
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"I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there."
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"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."
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"Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often."
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"I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films."
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"I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it."
Science
"I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good."
Movies
"I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish."
Time
"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."
Film
"A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it."
Funny
"Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof."
Comedy
"I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work."
Work
"Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching."
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"In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there."
Comedy
"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."
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