You Don't Have To Know Much, Just

For Me, Most Comedy Scripts Fail In The Mechanical Playing-out Of The Setup. They'll Pay Lip Service To A Moral Lesson Or A Psychological Progression.

Where's The Great Pay? Where's The Travel? Where's The Winnebago, Goddamnit!

You Don't Have To Know Much, Just A Little Bit More Than Everybody Else.

If People Work Together, If They Can Keep A Cooperative Spirit And Use Their Ingenuity And Balance It All With Good Humor And Good Will, Then There's Nothing To Be Afraid Of. That's The Sappy Part Of It, ... On The Other Hand, Every Halloween For Many Years When My Kids Were Trick-or-treating I Would Put On My 'ghostbusters' Jumpsuit With A Police Flashlight To Protect All The Kids From Ghosts.

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.