Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'
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I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.
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I've usually had two styles: the Fletch character and the Clark Griswold character.
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Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.
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The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.
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They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.
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I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.
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My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.
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I prefer movies because the money is better and certainly because you really know where you stand when you are making movies, and I have made a lot of them: 50-something - I don't know.