I Always Claim That The Writer Has

As Much As I Liked Acting For Its Playfulness And The Reward Of Hearing Big Laughs Wash Over You On A Stage, I Always Felt I Should Do Something That I Could Control.

The Rule Of Thumb For A Director Or Producer - Which Prevents Them From Just Sticking Their Names On Everything - Is That You Have To Contribute Substantially More Than 50 Percent Of The Character Dialogue And Story.

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.

Ive Never Been A Big Believer In Ghosts Or The Spirit World, And For Me, That Was Part Of The Point Of The Movie, ... What The Ghostbusters Represented Was The Triumph Of Human Courage And Human Ingenuity. People Create Their Own Monsters. Our Fears Come From Within Us, Not Outside.

There's Something Very Edgy About Bill Murray Out There Improvising.