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.

The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'

I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play.

I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.

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

People always give me styling products and stuff.