I'm thrilled that people had as much fun seeing the movie as we did making it. I couldn't be happier about this very strong opening.

The studio just wanted us to throw in something as a tease. I didn't object.

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

Anna never cracks up. She knows that if I need her to take that baseball, she'll do it. You can't get a stunt double. It wouldn't be funny to have a stunt double from behind.

Sure, we'll be working on Scary Movie 5 , but we'll wait until the material swells up in the next year. There will be enough movies out there to pick from.

Spielberg did not have a great plot to work with. The Tom Cruise character doesn't really change himself, and he really doesn't change the outcome of things. I really didn't like the movie. ... The stupid plot we had in Airplane! was better than that.