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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.

I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them.

It's just so hard to get movies made, especially comedies.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'

A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

I don't see myself making comedies always.