Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing. That film starred the greatest movie actor of all time, and the idea that our movie could ever be connected in some fashion to something so brilliant and beautiful always made feel like, 'That's all they had to write about?'

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.