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" 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. "
Humor
Good
Long
" Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater. "
Watching
Also
Different
" Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work. "
Honor
Time
Work
" I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are. "
See
Today
Stripes
" 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
Always
Great
" 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. "
Audience
Go
Reality
" I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast. "
Science
Science Fiction
Always
" I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse. "
Sense Of Humor
Better
Humor
" I don't think there will be another Ghostbusters. I think we're all too old to do it. I think we've done it a couple times and there is not that much to get out of it, to do that would be fresh in it. "
Fresh
Will
Done
" I love horror and sci-fi. "
Sci-Fi
Horror
I Love
" 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. "
Think
Accept
Back
" In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there. "
Things
Were
Helps
" I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy. "
Like
Comedy
Style
" 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. "
Talk
Internet
Media
" 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. "
Animal
Remember
Proud
" I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters. "
Twins
Think
Science Fiction
" 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. "
Never
Thought
Seriously
" It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with. "
Important
You
Listen
" I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it. "
Science
Always
Never
" I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another. "
Warmth
Always
Hang
" 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. "
Funny
Achieve
Work
" 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
First
House
" My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career. "
Movies
Okay
Speak
" The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions. "
Home
Room
Extra
" 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. "
Goofy
Like
Horror
" We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start. "
Animal
House
Reviews
" Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early. "
Early
Out
Well
" 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. "
Way
Write
Draft
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