David Zucker

“If the audience doesn't care about the characters, they won't care about the jokes.”

“Casting is everything. If you have the right actors, you can get away with anything.”

“The first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny.”

“Political correctness is a straitjacket on comedy.”

“A lot of our jokes were visual. You could watch the movie with the sound off and still laugh.”

“Leslie Nielsen was a gift. He had this great serious face, but he was completely in on the joke.”

“We always felt that the sillier the joke, the more serious the actors had to be.”

“There's no such thing as a joke that's too long.”

“We just tried to be as funny as we could. We didn't think about what was 'too much'.”

“The problem with a lot of comedies is that they're not really about anything. We always tried to have a solid story.”

“We just don't have the attention span for a movie without jokes for 10 minutes.”

“Parody is a very specific thing. You have to love the genre you're parodying.”