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" I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful. "

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" If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma. "

" My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell. "

" 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. "

" I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit. "

" I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport. "

" No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form. "

" The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park, Wallyworld, at the end of 'Vacation.' The last 20 minutes of the film was entirely different - and bombed so badly that the audience just stopped cold. "

" We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater. "

" I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down. "

" I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke. "

" A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you. "

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

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" Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. "

" Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all. "

" As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making. "

" I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently suggest or guide or inspire or contribute whatever I can to their effort. "

" How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood. "

" 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. "

" Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone. "

" I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect. "

" I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work. "

" I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world. "

" It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action. "